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Eric Lindblom

Harvard

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The Cognitive Science General Systems Project

Lindblom

http://h2o.law.harvard.edu/ViewProject.do?projectID=515 

Cognition (Harvard):

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Cognitive Science

The notion of a "mental representation" is, arguably, in the first instance a theoretical construct of cognitive science. As such, it is a basic concept of the Computational Theory of Mind, according to which cognitive states and processes are constituted by the occurrence, transformation and storage (in the mind/brain) of information-bearing structures (representations) of one kind or another.

However, on the assumption that a representation is an object with semantic properties (content, reference, truth-conditions, truth-value, etc.), a mental representation may be more broadly construed as a mental object with semantic properties. As such, mental representations (and the states and processes that involve them) need not be understood only in computational terms. On this broader construal, mental representation is a philosophical topic with roots in antiquity and a rich history and literature predating the recent "cognitive revolution."

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental-representation/

Celebrities in Cognitive Science

"Writings by and about leading thinkers in cognitive science, and critics and observers of the philosophy of mind. 

Charles Babbage Fredric Bartlett Jerome Bruner John Carroll David Chalmers Noam Chomsky Patricia Churchland William Clancey Michael Cole Antonio Damasio Daniel Dennett John Dewey Hubert Dreyfus Gerald Edelman Jerry Fodor Heinz von Foerster Howard Gardner Jack Goody Richard Gregory Stevan Harnad Douglas Hofstadter   David Hume Phillip Johnson-Laird Immanel Kant Karl Lashley George Lakoff Brenda Laurel John McCarthy Warren McCulloch Drew McDermott George Miller Marvin Minsky Allen Newell Donald Norman Ulric Neisser Seymore Papert Ivan Pavlov Jean Piaget Hilary Putnam Roger Schank John Searle Herbert Simon B. F. Skinner Paul Thagard Sherry Turkle Alan Turing Mark Turner Francisco Varela Valentin Voloshinov Lev Vygotsky Terry Winograd Ludwig Wittgenstein Wilhelm Wundt "