Natural Language and Possible Minds - Prakash Mondal

Natural Language and Possible Minds

How Language Uncovers the Cognitive Landscape of Nature

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Buch | Softcover
232 Seiten
2017
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-31665-2 (ISBN)
66,34 inkl. MwSt
Natural Language and Possible Minds: How Language Uncovers the Cognitive Landscape of Nature examines the intrinsic connection between natural language and the nature of mentality, offering to show how language can shed light on the forms of other types of mentality in non-humans.
In Natural Language and Possible Minds: How Language Uncovers the Cognitive Landscape of Nature Prakash Mondal attempts to demonstrate that language can reveal the hidden logical texture of diverse types of mentality in non-humans, contrary to popular belief. The widely held assumption in mainstream cognitive science is that language being humanly unique introduces an anthropomorphic bias in investigations into the nature of other possible minds. This book turns this around by formulating a lattice of mental structures distilled from linguistic structures constituting the cognitive building blocks of an ensemble of biological entities/beings. This turns out to have surprising consequences for machine cognition as well. Challenging mainstream views, this book will appeal to cognitive scientists, philosophers of mind, linguists and also cognitive ethologists.

Prakash Mondal, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. He is the author of Language, Mind and Computation (Palgrave, 2014) and Language and Cognitive Structures of Emotion (Palgrave, 2016) and Language, Biology and Cognition (completed).

Preface
Acknowledgements

1 Introduction
 1.1 On Minds and Mental Structures
 1.2 A Note on the Methodology
 1.3 Why Natural Language?
 1.4 Summary

2 Natural Language and the Linguistic Foundations of Mind
 2.1 Language as a Window onto Thought and Reasoning
 2.2 Language as Conceptualization
 2.3 Language as a Mental Tool
 2.4 The Expressive Power of Natural Language and Ineffability
 2.5 Summary

3 Possible Minds from Natural Language
 3.1 Linguistic Structures and Mental Structures
 3.2 Mental Structures and the Forms of Possible Minds
 3.3 Summary

4 Natural Language, Machines and Minds
 4.1 Machines and Minds
 4.2 Computation and Natural Language
 4.3 Summary

5 Possible Minds and the Cognitive
 5.1 Summary

6 Conclusion
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Value Inquiry Book Series / Cognitive Science ; 303
Verlagsort Leiden
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 394 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
ISBN-10 90-04-31665-5 / 9004316655
ISBN-13 978-90-04-31665-2 / 9789004316652
Zustand Neuware
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