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Sep 1998
ISBN 0262692147
200 pp.
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Similarity and Symbols in Human Thinking
Steven A. Sloman and Lance J. Rips

Much of current cognitive science is a debate between two views of thinking -- thinking as governed by mental rules and thinking as governed by similarity among ideas. Contributors to this volume explore these contrasting views in research on reasoning and concepts, and consider their merits from the perspectives of cognition, development, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. The book evaluates the potential of each view to describe human cognition and examines whether systems compatible with these different perspectives might work together in explaining thought. While maintaining a high level of scientific sophistication, the book remains accessible to undergraduates and researchers in other fields.

Table of Contents
1 Similarity as an Explanatory Construct
by Steven A. Sloman and Lance J. Rips
2 Two Dogmas of Conceptual Empiricism: Implications for Hybrid Models of the Structure of Knowledge
by Frank C. Keil, W. Carter Smith, Daniel J. Simons and Daniel T. Levin
3 Similarity-Based Categorization and Fuzziness of Natural Categories
by James A. Hampton
4 Alternative Strategies of Categorization
by Edward E. Smith, Andrea L. Patalano and John Jonides
5 Similarity and Rules: Distinct? Exhaustive? Empirically Distinguishable?
by Ulrike Hahn and Nick Chater
6 Reuniting Perception and Conception
by Robert L. Goldstone and Lawrence W. Barsalou
7 Similarity and the Development of Rules
by Dedre Gentner and José Medina
 Index
 
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