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Natural Language and Possible Minds: How Language Uncovers the Cognitive Landscape of Nature

  • Paperback
  • 244 pages
  • Publisher: Brill
  • 15.5 x 23.4 x 1.6 cm

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In Natural Language and Possible Minds: How Language Uncovers the Cognitive Landscape of Nature Prakash Mondal attempts to demonstrate that language can reveal the hidden logical texture of diverse types of mentality in non-humans, contrary to popular belief. The widely held assumption in mainstream cognitive science is that language being humanly unique introduces an anthropomorphic bias in investigations into the nature of other possible minds. This book turns this around by formulating a lattice of mental structures distilled from linguistic structures constituting the cognitive building blocks of an ensemble of biological entities/beings. This turns out to have surprising consequences for machine cognition as well. Challenging mainstream views, this book will appeal to cognitive scientists, philosophers of mind, linguists and also cognitive ethologists.

  • Title

    Natural Language and Possible Minds: How Language Uncovers the Cognitive Landscape of Nature

  • Author

    Prakash Mondal

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Brill

  • Published

    August 2017

  • Weight

    364g

  • Page Count

    244

  • Dimensions

    15.5 x 23.4 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9789004316652

  • ISBN-10

    9004316655

  • Eden Code

    4893283