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New Directions in Cognitive Science

Since 1988, the year in which it inaugurated its Cognitive Science Program, Simon Fraser University has sponsored an annual conference in Cognitive Studies. The first ten Proceedings of these conferences are published as Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science, which has since changed its name to New Directions in Cognitive Science and is published by Oxford University Press, General Editor, Francis Jeffry Pelletier.

 

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Volume 1  
Information, language, and cognition, ed. by Philip P. Hanson
Volume 2  
Formal grammar: theory and implementation, ed. by Robert Levine
Volume 3  
Connectionism: theory and practice, ed. by Steven Davis
Volume 4  
The logical foundations of cognition, ed. by John Macnamara and Gonzalo E. Reyes
Volume 5  
Perception, ed. by Kathleen Akins
Volume 6  
The inheritance and innateness of grammars, ed. by Myrna M. Gopnik
Volume 7  
Morality and evolution, ed. by Peter Danielson
Volume 8  
Visual attention, ed. by Richard D. Wright
Volume 9  
Color perception, ed. by Steven Davis
Volume 10  
Metarepresentations, ed. by Dan Sperber
Volume 11  
Common sense, reasoning, and rationality, ed. by Renée Elio
Volume 12  
Reference, ed. by Jeanette K. Gundel and Nancy Hedberg
Volume 13  
Kinds, Things, and Stuff, ed. by Francis Jeffry Pelletier

 

Volume 1

information, language, and cognition

Edited by Philip P. Hanson

Oxford University Pressbook3
New York, 1991
424 pp., 6 figs.
ISBN 0-19-507309-6

 

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Contents

Preface
Philip P. Hanson

What Is Information?
David Israel and John Perry
   Comment
John W. Heintz

Verbal Information, Interpretation, and Attitudes
Nicholas Asher
   Comment
Edward P. Stabler, Jr.

Truth Conditions and Procedural Semantics
Robert F. Hadley
   Comment
Zenon W. Pylyshyn

Putting Information to Work
Fred Dretske
   Comment
Brian Cantwell Smith

Concept Formation and Particularizing Learning
Lee R. Brooks
   Comment
Paul Thagard

Information and Representation
Jerry Fodor
   Comment
Ali Akhtar Kazmi

Roundtable Discussion
Nicholas Asher, Lee R. Brooks, Fred Dretske, Jerry Fodor, David Israel, John Perry, Zenon W. Pylyshyn, and Brian Cantwell Smith

Belief and Mental Representation
Scott Soames

Partial Information, Modality, and Intentionality
Fred Landman

Unifying Partial Descriptions of Sets
Carl J. Pollard and M. Andrew Moshier

Animals and Individualism
Kim Sterelny

When Is Information Explicitly Represented?
David Kirsh

Psychological Inference, Constitutive Rationality, and Logical Closure
Ian Pratt

Intrinsic Information
John D. Collier

Volume 2

formal grammar: theory and implementation

Edited by Robert Levine

Oxford University Pressbook5
New York, 1992
448 pp., 5 illus.
ISBN 0-19-507314-2 (cloth)
ISBN 0-19-507310-X (paper)

 

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Contents

Preface
Robert D. Levine

Learnability of Phase Structure Grammars
Janet Dean Fodor
   Comment
Jean Mark Gawron

Dynamic Categorial Grammar
Richard T. Oehrle
   Comment
Pauline Jacobson

Categorial Grammars, Lexical Rules, and the English Predicative
Bob Carpenter

Implementing Government Binding Theories
Edward P. Stabler, Jr.
   Comment
Verónica Dahl

A Learning Model for a Parametric Theory in Phonology
B. Elan Dresher
   Comment
Kenneth Church

Some Choices in the Theory of Morphology
Arnold M. Zwicky

Semantics, Knowledge and NP Modification
Stephen Crain and Henry Hamburger

On the Development of Biologically Real Models of Human Linguistic Capacity
Mary-Louise Kean

Properties of Lexical Entries and Their Real-Time Implementation
Lewis P. Shapiro

Volume 3

connectionism: theory and practice

Edited by Steven Davis

book7Oxford University Press
New York, 1992
336 pp.
ISBN 0-19-507666-4 (paper)
ISBN 0-19-507665-6 (cloth)

 

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Contents

Using Coherence Assumptions to Discover the Underlying Causes of the Sensory Input
G.E. Hinton and S. Becker
   Comment
Michael I. Jordan and Robert A. Jacobs

A Deeper Unity: Some Feyerabendian Themes in Neurocomputational Form
Paul M. Churchland
   Comment
Charles Travis

Towards a Microstructural Account of Human Reasoning
David E. Rumelhart

Connectionism Without Tears
Mark S. Seidenberg
   Comment
Michael E.J. Masson

Grammatical Structure and Distributed Representations
Jeffrey L. Elman
   Comment
Tim van Gelder

Structured Representations in Connectionist Systems?
Terence Horgan and John Tienson

Local Modelling in Phonology
John Goldsmith

Connectionism and the Philosophy of Mental Representation
William Ramsey

Connectionism and the Computational Neurobiology of Curve Detection
Steven W. Zucker, Allan Dobbins, and Lee Iverson

PDP Learnability and Innate Knowledge of Language
David Kirsh

Volume 4

the logical foundations of cognition

Edited by John Macnamara and Gonzalo E. Reyes

book9Oxford University Press
New York, 1994
384 pp., 8 illus.
ISBN 0-19-509215-5 (cloth)
ISBN 0-19-509216-3 (paper)

 

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Contents

I. Theoretical Orientation

Introduction
John Macnamara and Gonzalo E. Reyes

Logic and Cognition
John Macnamara

Logic and Psychology: Comment on "Logic and Cognition"
Hilary Putnam

Tools for the Advancement of Objective Logic: Closed Categories and Toposes
F. William Lawvere

II. Logic

Category Theory as a Conceptual Tool in the Study of Cognition
François Magnan and Gonzalo E. Reyes

Reference, Kinds and Predicates
Marie La Palme Reyes, John Macnamara and Gonzalo E. Reyes

III. Psychology

Foundational Issues in the Learning of Proper Names, Count Nouns and Mass Nouns
John Macnamara and Gonzalo E. Reyes

Prolegomena to a Theory of Kinds
Alberto Peruzzi

How Children Learn Common Nouns and Proper Names
D. Geoffrey Hall

Mental Logic and How to Discover It
Martin D.S. Braine

IV. Linguistics

The Semantics of Syntactic Categories
Emmon Bach

Some Issues Involving Internal and External Semantics
Francis Jeffrey Pelletier

V. Intentionality

Husserl's Notion of Intentionality
Dagfinn Føllesdal

Referential Structure of Fictional Texts
Marie La Palme Reyes

How Not to Draw the de re/de dicto Distinction
Martin Hahn

Cognitive Content and Semantics:    Comment
on "How Not to Draw the de re/de dicto Distinction"
Philip P. Hanson

Volume 5

perception

Edited by Kathleen Akins

Oxford University Pressbook11
New York, 1996
pp. 339.
ISBN 0-19-508462-4 (paper)
ISBN 0-19-508461-6 (cloth)

 

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Contents

Introduction
Kathleen A. Akins

Explaining Why Things Look the Way They Do
Kirk Ludwig

A Feedforward Network for Fast Stereo Vision with Movable Fusion Plane
Paul M. Churchland

On the Failure to Detect Changes in Scenes across Saccades
John Grimes

On the Function of Visual Representation
Dana Ballard

Filling In: Why Dennett Is Wrong
P.S. Churchland and V.S. Ramachandran

Seeing Is Believing -- Or Is It?
Daniel C. Dennett

Ships in the Night: Churchland and Ramachandran on Dennett's Theory of Consciousness
Kathleen A. Akins and Steven Winger

Lewis on What Distinguishes Perception from Hallucination
Brian P. McLaughlin

Intentionality and the Theory of Vision
Frances Egan

Success-Orientation and Individualism in Marr's Theory of Vision
Sarah Patterson

Objective Perception
John Haugeland

Visual Attention and the Attention-Action Interface
John M. Henderson

The Perception of Time
C. Randy Gallistel

 

Volume 6

the inheritance and innateness of grammars

Edited by Myrna M. Gopnik

Obook13xford University Press
New York, 1997
440 pp.
ISBN 0-19-511534-1 (paper)
ISBN 0-19-511533-3 (cloth)

 

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Contents

Introduction
Myrna Gopnik

Evolution, Nativism and Learning in the Development of Language and Speech
Patricia K. Kuhl and Andrew N. Meltzoff

In the Beginning: On the Genetic and Environmental Factors that Make Early Language Acquisition Possible
Laura Ann Petitto

Exploring Innateness through Cultural and Linguistic Variation
Martha B. Crago, Shanley E.M. Allen
and Wendy P. Hough-Eyamie

Epidemiology of Specific Language Impairment
J. Bruce Tomblin

The Biological Basis of Language: Familial Language Impairment
Myrna Gopnik, Jenny Dalalakis,
Suzy E. Fukuda and Shinji Fukuda

The Grammatical Agreement Deficit in Specific Language Impairment: Evidence from Therapy Experiments
Harald Clahsen and Detlef Hansen

Specific Language Impairment, Cognition and the Biological Basis of Language
Judith R. Johnston

Evolutionary Biology and the Evolution of Language
Steven Pinker

A Neurobiological Approach to the Noninvariance Problem in Stop Consonant Categorization
Harvey M. Sussman

Volume 7

modeling rationality, morality, and evolution

Edited by Peter A. Danielson

Oxford University Pressbook15
New York, 1998
480 pp.
ISBN 0-19-512550-9 (paper)
ISBN 0-19-512549-5 (cloth)

 

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Contents

Introduction
Peter A. Danielson

Rationality

Rationality and Rules
Edward F. McClennen

Intention and Deliberation
David Gauthier

Following Through with One's Plans: Reply to David Gauthier
Michael E. Bratman

How Braess' Paradox Solves Newcomb's Problem
A. D. Irvine

Economics of the Prisoner's Dilemma: A Background
Bryan R. Routledge

Modeling Rationality: Normative or Descriptive?
Ronald de Sousa

Modeling Social Interaction

Theorem 1
Leslie Burkholder

The Failure of Success: Intrafamilial Exploitation in the Prisoner's Dilemma
Louis Marinoff

Transforming Social Dilemmas: Group Identity and Co-operation
Peter Kollock

Beliefs and Co-operation
Bernardo A. Huberman and Natalie S. Glance

The Neural Representation of the Social World
Paul M. Churchland

Morality

Moral Dualism
David Schmidtz

Categorically Rational Preferences and the Structure of Morality
Duncan MacIntosh

Why We Need a Moral Equilibrium Theory
William J. Talbott

Morality's Last Chance
Chantale LaCasse and Don Ross

Evolution

Mutual Aid: Darwin Meets The Logic of Decision
Brian Skyrms

Three Differences between Deliberation and Evolution
Elliott Sober

Evolutionary Models of Co-operative Mechanisms: Artificial Morality and Genetic Programming
Peter A. Danielson

Norms as Emergent Properties of Adaptive Learning: The Case of Economic Routines
Giovanni Dosi, Luigi Marengo, Andrea Bassanini and Marco Valente

Volume 8

visual attention

Edited by Richard D. Wright

book17Oxford University Press
New York, 1998
478 pp.
ISBN 0-19-512692-0 (cloth)
ISBN 0-19-512693-9 (paper)

 

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Contents

Attention in Early Scientific Psychology
Gary Hatfield

The Perception of Features and Objects
Anne Treisman

Inattentional Blindness: Perception without Attention
Arien Mack and Irvin Rock

The Medium of Attention: Location-based, Object-Centred, or Scene-based?
Steven P. Tipper and Bruce Weaver

Attention and Automaticity
Gordon D. Logan and Brian J. Compton

The Control of Visual Attention
Richard D. Wright and Lawrence M. Ward

Objects, Attention, and Perceptual Experience
Steven Yantis

Visual Indexes in Spatial Vision and Imagery
Zenon Pylyshyn

Cross-Modal Control of Attention Shifts
Lawrence M. Ward, John J. McDonald, and Narly Golestani

Development of Orienting to Locations and Objects
Michael I. Posner, Mary K. Rothbart, Lisa Thomas-Thrapp, and Gina Gerardi

Attention in Saccades
Burkhart Fischer

The Attentional Blink: The Eyes Have It (But So Does the Brain)
Kimron Shapiro and Kathleen Terry

Inhibition-of-Return is not Reflexive
Richard D. Wright and Christian M. Richard

Attentional Effects in Visual Search: Relating Search Accuracy and Search Time
John Palmer

Search via Recursive Rejection (SRR): Evidence with Normal and Neurological Patients
Hermann J. Müller, Glyn W. Humphreys, and Andrew C. Olsen

Attentional Emphasis in Visual Orienting and Resolving
David LaBerge

Visual Attention and the Binding Problem: A Neurophysiological Perspective
Steven J. Luck and Nancy J. Beach

Volume 9

color perception

Edited by Steven Davis

Oxford University Pressbook19
New York, 2000
256 pp.
ISBN 0-19-513667-5 (paper)
ISBN 0-19-513668-3 (cloth)

 

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Contents

Introduction
Steven Davis

"Cherries among the Leaves": The Evolutionary Origins of Color Vision
J.D. Mollon

Color Painters / Color Painting
Sanford Wurmfeld

Color as a Carrier of Physical Information
Steven A. Shafer and Bruce A. Maxwell

Computational Uses of Color
Brian Funt and Vlad Cardei

Simultaneous Contrast and Color Constancy: Signatures of Human Image Processing
John J. McCann

Color Constancy Viewed from a Color-Matching Perspective
Graham D. Finlayson

Color Is a Medium as Well as a Message
Robert J. Woodham

Understanding Color Matches: What Are We Taking for Granted?
Michael H. Brill

Philosophizing about Color
Frank Jackson

Comparative Color Vision: Quality Space and Visual Ecology
Evan Thompson

Color and the Inverted Spectrum
David R. Hilbert and Mark Eli Kalderon

The Peculiarity of Color
Kathleen Akins and Martin Hahn

Volume 10

metarepresentations

Edited by Dan Sperber

Oxford University Pressmetarepresentation
New York, 2000
464 pp.
ISBN 0-19-514115-6 (paper)
ISBN 0-19-514114-8 (cloth)

 

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Contents

Introduction
Dan Sperber

Making Tools for Thinking
Daniel C. Dennett

 

The Mind Beyond Itself
Robert A. Wilson

Consider the Source: The Evolution of Adaptations for Decoupling and Metarepresentations
Leda Cosmides and John Tooby

Metarepresentations in an Evolutionary Perspective
Dan Sperber

Chimpanzee Cognition and the Question of Mental Re-Representation
Andrew Whiten

The Mentalizing Folk
Alvin I. Goldman

How to Aquire a Representational Theory of Mind
Alan M. Leslie

Metarepresentation and Conceptual Change: Evidence from Williams Syndrome
Susan Carey and Susan C. Johnson

Consciousness and Metacognition
David M. Rosenthal

 

Meaning, Exemplarization and Metarepresentation
Keith Lehrer

The Iconicity of Metarepresentations
Francois Recanati

Social Externalism and Deference
Steven Davis

 

Metarepresentations in Linguistic Communication
Deirdre Wilson

 

 

Volume 11

common sense, reasoning, and rationality

Edited by Renée Elio

Oxford University Pressmetarepresentation
New York, 2002

288 pp.

ISBN 0-19-514767-7 (paper)

ISBN 0-19-514766-9 (cloth)

 

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Contents

Issues in Commonsense Reasoning and Rationality

Renée Elio

Rationality and Intelligence

Stuart Russell

 

The Logical Foundations of Means-End Reasoning

John L. Pollock

Induction and Consistency

Henry E. Kyburg

The Logic of Ordinary Language

Gilbert Harman

Knowledge and Coherence

Paul Thagard, Chris Eliasmith, Paul Rusnock, and Cameron Shelley

The Evolutionary Roots of Intelligence and Rationality

Denise Dellarosa Cummins

How Good Are Fast and Frugal Heuristics?

Gerd Gigerenzer, Jean Czerlinski, and Laura Martignon

 

Commonsense Reasoning, Logic, and Human Rationality

Mike Oaksford and Nick Chater

 

Reasoning Imperialism

Lance J. Rips

 

Ending the Rationality Wars: How to Make Disputes about Human Rationality Disappear

Richard Samuels, Stephen Stich, and Michael Bishop

 

 

Volume 12

reference

Edited by Jeanette K. Gundel and Nancy Hedberg

Oxford University Pressreference
New York, 2008

320 pp.

ISBN 0-19-533163-X (cloth)

 

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Contents

Introduction

Jeanette K. Gundel and Nancy Hedberg

 

On Referring and Not Referring

Kent Bach

 

Issues in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Definite Descriptions in English

Barbara Abbott

 

Equatives and Deferred Reference

Gregory Ward


Rethinking the SMASH Approach to Pronoun Interpretation

Andrew Kehler


Good-Enough Representation in Plural and Singular Pronominal Reference

Sungryong Koh, Anthony J. Sanford, Charles Clifton Jr., and Eugene J. Dawydiak


The Overlapping Distributions of Personal and Demonstrative Pronouns

Donna K. Byron, Sarah Brown-Schmidt, and Michael K. Tanenhaus

 

Reference, Centers, and Transitions in Spoken Spanish

Maite Taboada

 

Linguistic Claims Formulated in Terms of Centering

Massimo Poesio

 

Looking Both Ways

Alan Garnham and H. Wind Cowles

 

Volume 13

kinds, things, and stuff: cognitive issues involving generics and mass terms

Edited by Francis Jeffry Pelletier

mass terms

available 2009

 


Contents

Introduction

Francis Jeffry Pelletier

 

Generics: A Philosophical Introduction

Francis Jeffry Pelletier

 

Generics and Concepts

Gregory Carlson

 

Conceptual Representation and Some Forms of Genericity

Sandeep Prasada


Are All Generic Statements Created Equal?

Francis Jeffry Pelletier

 

Stability in Concepts and Evaluating the Truth of Generic Statements

James Hampton


Generics as a Window onto Young Children's Concepts

Susan Gelman

 

Mass Terms: A Philosophical Introduction

Francis Jeffry Pelletier

 

A Piece of Cheese, A Grain of Sand: The Semantics of Mass Nouns and Unitizers

Clifford Goddard

 

On Using Count Nouns, Mass Nouns, and Pluralia tantum: What Counts?

Edward Wisniewski

 

Count Nouns, Sortal Concepts, and the Nature of Early Words

Fei Xu

 

 



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