Husserl, Intentionality, and Cognitive Science

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On sale Oct 18, 1984 | 372 Pages | 9780262540414
As this book makes clear, current use of data structures such as frames, scripts, and stereotypes in psychology, artificial intelligence, and all the other disciplines now grouped together as Cognitive Science develop ideas already explored by Husserl who believed that the analysis of mental representations was the proper subject of philosophy, psychology, and other disciplines that deal with the mind. This new anthology will serve as an ideal introduction to phenomenology for analytic philosophers, both as a text and as the single most useful source book on Husserl for cognitive scientists.

An MIT Press/Bradford Book.

Harrison Hall is on the philosophy faculty at the University of Delaware.

Hubert L. Dreyfus is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley.

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As this book makes clear, current use of data structures such as frames, scripts, and stereotypes in psychology, artificial intelligence, and all the other disciplines now grouped together as Cognitive Science develop ideas already explored by Husserl who believed that the analysis of mental representations was the proper subject of philosophy, psychology, and other disciplines that deal with the mind. This new anthology will serve as an ideal introduction to phenomenology for analytic philosophers, both as a text and as the single most useful source book on Husserl for cognitive scientists.

An MIT Press/Bradford Book.

Author

Harrison Hall is on the philosophy faculty at the University of Delaware.

Hubert L. Dreyfus is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley.

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