Natural Language and Possible Minds

How Language Uncovers the Cognitive Landscape of Nature

AvPrakash Mondal

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-08-03
Mått:155 x 235 x 13 mm
Vikt:394 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cognitive Science
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004316652

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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).

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PrefaceAcknowledgements1 Introduction1.1 On Minds and Mental Structures1.2 A Note on the Methodology1.3 Why Natural Language?1.4 Summary2 Natural Language and the Linguistic Foundations of Mind2.1 Language as a Window onto Thought and Reasoning2.2 Language as Conceptualization2.3 Language as a Mental Tool2.4 The Expressive Power of Natural Language and Ineffability2.5 Summary3 Possible Minds from Natural Language3.1 Linguistic Structures and Mental Structures3.2 Mental Structures and the Forms of Possible Minds3.3 Summary4 Natural Language, Machines and Minds4.1 Machines and Minds4.2 Computation and Natural Language4.3 Summary5 Possible Minds and the Cognitive5.1 Summary6 ConclusionReferencesIndex