Review of Foundations of Cognitive Science

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Foundations of Cognitive Science, editor Michael I. Posner, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1989, 888 pp., ISBN 0-262-16112-5.

Here we have a large book with a set of chapters written by different people on the foundations of cognitive science that is meant to answer the question, "What is cognitive science?" The book does answer the question, in so far as it can in such a young field, by providing a range of chapters tackling cognitive science from different points of view. Eric Wanner, Jerome Feldman, Michael Gazaniga, S. Kosslyn, and Geoffrey Hinton all give the book strong positive vindication on its cover flaps.

Michael Posner's book was initiated when a board …