Open AccessMind: Introduction to Cognitive Science
Author(s) -
Bennett Bonnie Holte,
Nelson Dwight,
Pannier Russell,
Sullivan Thomas,
RobinsonRiegler Gregory
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
ai magazine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.597
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 2371-9621
pISSN - 0738-4602
DOI - 10.1609/aimag.v19i1.1360
Subject(s) - argument (complex analysis) , cognitive science , cognition , epistemology , field (mathematics) , computer science , psychology , artificial intelligence , data science , philosophy , mathematics , biochemistry , chemistry , neuroscience , pure mathematics
Understanding the mind is one of the great "holy grails" of twentieth-century research. Regardless of training, most people who come in contact with the field of AI are at least partially motivated by the glimmer of hope that they will get a better understanding of the mind. This quest, of course, is a rich and complex one. It is easy to get mired in minutiae along the way, be they the optimization of an algorithm, the details of a mental model, or the intricacies of a logical argument. Thagard's book attempts to call us back to the larger picture and to draw in new devotees -- and, in general, he succeeds.