Efforts to understand the brain bases of language face the Map** Problem: At what level
do linguistic computations and representations connect to human neurobiology? We review …

Tracing the history of central concepts from the nineteenth century to the present, this study
surveys the significant contributions of philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and computer …

How are we able to understand and anticipate each other in everyday life, in our daily
interactions? Through the use of such" folk" concepts as belief, desire, intention, and …

This paper explores differences between Connectionist proposals for cognitive architecture
and the sorts of models that have traditionally been assumed in cognitive science. We claim …

There has been much discussion recently about the scope and limits of purely symbolic
models of the mind and about the proper role of connectionism in cognitive modeling. This …

Psychosemantics explores the relation between commonsense psychological theories and
problems that are central to semantics and the philosophy of language. Building on and …

Ethologists and others studying animal behavior in a “cognitive” spirit are in need of a
descriptive language and method that are neither anachronistically bound by behaviorist …

Conscious experience presents a deep puzzle. On the one hand, a fairly robust materialism
must be true in order to explain how it is that conscious events causally interact with non …

Page 1 LANCE J. RIPS The PSYCHOLOGY of PROOF Deductive Reasoning in Human
Thinking Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PROOF Deductive Reasoning in …

A new collection of wide-ranging essays from one of cognitive science's most distingushed
figures. Minds are complex artifacts, partly biological and partly social; only a unified …