This volume in the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science series concerns the construction and use of representations that represent other representations. Metarepresentations are ubiquitous among human beings, whenever we think or talk about mental states or linguistic acts, or theorize about the mind or language. This volume collects previously unpublished studies on the subject by an interdisciplinary group of contributors, including Daniel Dennett, Alvin Goldman, Keith Lehrer, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby.
Language
English
Format
Paperback
Release
January 01, 2000
ISBN 13
9780195141153
Metarepresentations: A Multidisciplinary Perspective (|c NDCS |t New Directions in Cognitive Science, 10)
This volume in the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science series concerns the construction and use of representations that represent other representations. Metarepresentations are ubiquitous among human beings, whenever we think or talk about mental states or linguistic acts, or theorize about the mind or language. This volume collects previously unpublished studies on the subject by an interdisciplinary group of contributors, including Daniel Dennett, Alvin Goldman, Keith Lehrer, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby.