Human and Machine Thinking (Distinguished Lecture Series)

By Philip N. Johnson-Laird

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138876194
• ISBN13: 9781138876194
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"