Human and Machine Thinking
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Human and Machine Thinking

Philip N. Johnson-Laird

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Human and Machine Thinking

Philip N. Johnson-Laird

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About This Book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Prologue
  7. 1 Deduction
  8. Formal Rules of Inference
  9. The Mental Model Theory of Deduction
  10. Rules Versus Models
  11. Some Morals for Machines
  12. Conclusions
  13. 2 Induction
  14. Models and Specific Inductions
  15. General Inductions
  16. Can Concepts Be Learned?
  17. Concepts: A Theory at the Computational Level
  18. Concepts and the Design of the Human Inductive System
  19. Conclusions
  20. 3 Creation
  21. What is Creativity?
  22. The Computational Architecture of Creativity
  23. Artistic Creativity
  24. Scientific Creativity
  25. Conclusions
  26. Epilogue
  27. References
  28. Author Index
  29. Subject Index