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Functional Models of Cognition

Self-Organizing Dynamics and Semantic Structures in Cognitive Systems

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Editors:
  1. Arturo Carsetti

    1. University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy

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Part of the book series: Theory and Decision Library A: (TDLA, volume 27)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-5
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Arturo Carsetti
      Pages 7-23

  3. Models of Cognition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
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    2. Functional Realism

      • Franz M. Wuketits
      Pages 27-38

    3. Complexity and Cognition

      • Domenico Parisi
      Pages 39-49

    4. From Visual Perception to Decision Making: A Synergetic Approach

      • Hermann Haken
      Pages 51-66

    5. Connectionist Psychology and Synergetics of Cognition

      • Eliano Pessa
      Pages 67-90

    6. Self-Organisation in Perception the Case of Motion

      • Riccardo Luccio
      Pages 91-100

  5. Methods of Formal Analysis in the Cognitive Sciences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199
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    2. Self-Organization and Computability

      • Moshe Koppel, Henri Atlan
      Pages 201-209

    3. The Difference between Clocks and Turing Machines

      • Giuseppe Longo
      Pages 211-232

    4. Sheaf Mereology and Space Cognition

      • Jean Petitot
      Pages 233-252

    5. Linguistic Structures, Cognitive Functions and Algebraic Semantics

      • Arturo Carsetti
      Pages 253-286
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Our ontology as well as our grammar are, as Quine affirms, ineliminable parts of our conceptual contribution to our theory of the world. It seems impossible to think of enti­ ties, individuals and events without specifying and constructing, in advance, a specific language that must be used in order to speak about these same entities. We really know only insofar as we regiment our system of the world in a consistent and adequate way. At the level of proper nouns and existence functions we have, for instance, a standard form of a regimented language whose complementary apparatus consists of predicates, variables, quantifiers and truth functions. If, for instance, the discoveries in the field of Quantum Mechanics should oblige us, in the future, to abandon the traditional logic of truth functions, the very notion of existence, as established until now, will be chal­ lenged. These considerations, as developed by Quine, introduce us to a conceptual perspective like the "internal realist" perspective advocated by Putnam whose principal aim is, for cer­ tain aspects, to link the philosophical approaches developed respectively by Quine and Wittgenstein. Actually, Putnam conservatively extends the approach to the problem of ref­ erence outlined by Quine: in his opinion, to talk of "facts" without specifying the language to be used is to talk of nothing.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy

    Arturo Carsetti

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Functional Models of Cognition

  • Book Subtitle: Self-Organizing Dynamics and Semantic Structures in Cognitive Systems

  • Editors: Arturo Carsetti

  • Series Title: Theory and Decision Library A:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9620-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6072-8Published: 30 November 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5360-2Published: 05 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-9620-6Published: 11 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0921-3384

  • Series E-ISSN: 2352-2119

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: II, 312

  • Topics: Cognitive Psychology, Systems Theory, Control, Theory of Computation, Artificial Intelligence, Epistemology

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