Sprevak Mark, Colombo Matteo (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of the Computational Mind

Routledge, 2018. — 527 p. — ISBN 978- 1- 138- 18668- 2Computational approaches dominate contemporary cognitive science, promising a unified, scientific explanation of how the mind works. However, computational approaches raise major philosophical and scientific questions. In what sense is the mind computational? How do computational approaches explain perception, learning, and decision making? What kinds of challenges should computational approaches overcome to advance our understanding of mind, brain, and behaviour?The Routledge Handbook of the Computational Mind is an outstanding overview and exploration of these issues and the first philosophical collection of its kind. Comprising thirty-five chapters by an international team of contributors from different disciplines, the Handbook is organised into four parts:Essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, and philosophy of science, The Routledge Handbook of the Computational Mind will also be of interest to those studying computational models in related subjects such as psychology, neuroscience, and computer science.History and Future Directions
Computational thought from Descartes to Lovelace
Turing and the first electronic brains: What the papers said
British cybernetics (or ‘The disembodiment of mind’)
Cybernetics
Turing-equivalent computation at the "conception" of cognitive science
Connectionism and post-connectionist models
Artificial Intelligence
Types of Computing
Classical computational models
Explanation and connectionist models
Dynamic information processing
Probabilistic models
Prediction error minimization in the brain
Foundations and Challenges
Triviality arguments about implementation
Computational implementation
Computation and levels in cognitive and neural sciences
Reductive explanation between psychology and neuroscience
Helmholtz’s vision: Underdetermination, behavior and the brain
The nature and function of content in computational models
Maps, models and computational simulations in the mind
The cognitive basis of computation: Putting computation in its place
Computational explanations and neural coding
Computation, consciousness, and "Computation and consciousness"
Concepts, symbols and computation: An integrative approach
Embodied cognition
Tractability and the computational mind
Applications
Computational cognitive neuroscience
Simulation in computational neuroscience
Learning and reasoning
Vision
Perception without computation?
Motor computation
Computational models of emotion
Computational psychiatry
Computational approaches to social cognition
Computational theories of group behavior