Human and Machine Thinking |
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Author:
| Johnson-Laird, Philip N. |
Series title: | Distinguished Lecture Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-135-44030-5 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2013 |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Group
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Imprint: | Psychology Press |
Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
List Price: | USD $62.95 |
Book Description:
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This book aims to reach an understanding of how the mind carries out three sorts of thinking -- deduction, induction, and creation -- to consider what goes right and what goes wrong, and to explore computational models of these sorts of thinking. Written for students of the mind -- psychologists, computer scientists, philosophers, linguists, and other cognitive scientists -- it also provides general readers with a self-contained account of human and machine thinking. The author...
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This book aims to reach an understanding of how the mind carries out three sorts of thinking -- deduction, induction, and creation -- to consider what goes right and what goes wrong, and to explore computational models of these sorts of thinking. Written for students of the mind -- psychologists, computer scientists, philosophers, linguists, and other cognitive scientists -- it also provides general readers with a self-contained account of human and machine thinking. The author presents his point of view, rather than a review, as simply as possible so that no technical background is required. Like the field of research itself, it calls for hard thinking about thinking.