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Tiêu đề
"Minds and machines" for humanities majors: A liberal arts course in computers and cognition
Tác giả
Cushing S.
Năm xuất bản
1991
Source title
Computers and the Humanities
Số trích dẫn
0
DOI
10.1007/BF00120963
Liên kết
Tóm tắt
A new one-semester course is described in which undergraduate students in non-technical majors are shown how traditional philosophical problems of knowledge, cognition, language, and human nature can be fruitfully investigated with computer-related concepts and techniques. A series of simple experiments is used to demonstrate to undergraduates that mental phenomena are real, that they can be studied experimentally, and that they can be modeled insightfully in computational - i.e., information-processing - terms. Each experiment illustrates a basic fact or principle of cognitive science: the formal character of algorithms; creativity and the variants of the Turing test; limitations on human memories; the use of cognitive strategies; heuristic techniques of artificial intelligence; formal grammars and their associated parsers; social, societal, and anthropological dimensions of mind; and degrees of logicality in human reasoning. Students are also taught the essentials of PROLOG, a programming language that is based explicitly on formal logic, incorporating such notions as fact, database, and query, thereby lending itself readily to the description of complex relational networks of a sort not commonly expected to be amenable to computer analysis. © 1991 Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Từ khóa
cognition; computers and humanists; human nature; knowledge; language; philosophy; teaching
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Nơi xuất bản
Kluwer Academic Publishers
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