this paper I focus on two recent issues being debated in the AI and cognitive science literature, principally that of situated cognition and secondarily that of bounded rationality.

Abstract: This article critically examines the views that psychology first came into existence as a discipline ca. 1879, that philosophy and psychology were estranged in the ensuing decades, that psychology finally became scientific through the influence of logical empiricism, and that it should now disappear in favor of cognitive science and neuroscience. It argues that psychology had a natural philosophical phase (from antiquity) that waxed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, that this psychology transformed into experimental psychology ca. 1900, that philosophers and psychologists collaboratively discussed the subject matter and methods of psychology in the first two decades of the twentieth century, that the neobehaviorists were not substantively influenced by the Vienna Circle, that the study of perception and cognition in psychology did not disappear in the behaviorist period and so did not reemerge as a result of artificial intelligence, linguistics, and the computer analogy, that although some psychologists adopted the language-of-thought approach of traditional cognitive science, many did not, and that psychology will not go away because it contributes independently of cognitive science and neuroscience.

Abstract. One new tradition that has emerged from early research on autonomous robots is embodied cognitive

Reference, 2002 Consciousness Studies Joseph A. Goguen Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of California at San Diego, La Jolla CA 92093-0114 Consciousness studies is a new, rapidly evolving, highly interdisciplinary field. Disciplines involved include psychology, philosophy, physics, sociology, religion, dynamic systems, mathematics, computer science, neuroscience, art, biology, cognitive science, anthropology, and linguistics. Even in the early 1990s, most scientists considered consciousness taboo, but now many consider it the most important unsolved problem in science. Consciousness is also a key issue in the ongoing dialogue between science and religion. The dominant view of consciousness in the hard sciences is of course materialist and reductionist. This has had important successes, but it also has important unresolved problems. For example, the biologist Francis Crick wrote, "You're nothing but a pack of neurons" [Crick, 1994]

How do children acquire the meaning of words? And why are words like know harder for learners to acquire than words like dog or jump? We suggest that a considerable part of the difficulty of acquiring the vocabulary of natural languages consists not in overcoming conceptual difficulties with abstract word meanings but rather in mapping these meanings onto their corresponding lexical forms. We sketch a theory of word learning that considers acquisition of the lexicon and of the clause-level syntax to be interlocked throughout their course, rather than distinct and separable parts of language learning. The machinery is set in motion by word-toworld pairing, a procedure that efficiently solves the mapping problem for a stock of concrete lexical items (mostly nouns), but only these. Armed with this basic stock of items, the learner accomplishes further lexical knowledge by an arm-over-arm process in which successively more sophisticated representations of linguistic structure are built. Lexical learning thereby can proceed by adding structure-to-world mapping to the earlier-available machinery. These further linguistic developments enable efficient solution of the mapping problem for the more abstract component of the lexical stock.. The outcome of this procedure is a highly lexicalized grammar whose usefulness does not end with successful learning. Rather, these detailed and highly structured lexical representations serve the purposes of the incremental multiple-cue processing machinery by which people produce speech and parse the speech that they hear.

Abstract: Linguistics in the second half of the XX century is marked by the cognitive revolution, profoundly influenced and partly triggered by Chomsky’s ideas. Universal Grammar (UG) is the key concept for the investigation of human language in a naturalistic setting; it can be construed as a theory of the species-specific biological endowment for language, an abstract model of the initial cognitive state. UG can be studied by integrating different kinds of evidence: “poverty of the stimulus” arguments, comparative linguistics and language development. In the last twenty years, “Principles and Parameters ” models of Universal Grammar have renewed comparative syntax and the study of language acquisition. (to be added a section on the Minimalist Program). 1. A NATURALISTIC APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE AND MIND. Linguistics in the second half of the century is marked by the cognitive revolution, which was in turn profoundly influenced and partly triggered by Chomsky’s ideas on language and mind. These ideas renewed the study of language by redefining objects and methods of linguistic inquiry. At the beginning of the century, the attempt to define the object of the discipline had

The major semantic properties of action verbs and argument structure constructions are summarized using the theoretical framework of Construction Grammar. This sets the stage for an analysis of the neuroanatomical substrates of action verbs and argument structure constructions in support of the hypothesis that the linguistic representation of action is grounded in the mirror neuron system. The discussion is then broadened to consider the emergence of language during ontogeny and phylogeny.

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