An Invitation to Cognitive Science

Preface vii

1 Shake Hands 1

2 The Classical Agenda: Plato's Problem, Aristotle's Turf-wars, Descartes' Solution 10

3 The Gathering Storm: La Mettrie's Machine, Frankenstein's Monster, Babbage's Engines, Russell's Logic 25

4 Meaning Must Have a Stop 46

5 Dark Glass and Shattered Mirrors 61

6 The Contradictions of the Public World 72

7 Turing and Wittgenstein 89

8 Information Storms 96

9 The Imitation Game 108

10 The Linguistic Turn: The Child Program 130

11 Stories of Consciousness 148

Notes 154

Index 166