Human and Machine Thinking

Bibliographic Collection: 
Anthropogeny
Publication Type: Book
Authors: Johnson-Laird, P. N.
Year of Publication: 1993
Series Title: John M. MacEachran Memorial Lecture Series
Number of Pages: 189
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
City: Hillsdale
Publication Language: eng
ISBN Number: 080580921X
Keywords: Artificial intelligence., Human information processing, Thought and thinking
Abstract:

Human And Machine Thinking aims to reach an understanding of how the mind carries out three sorts of thinking (deduction, induction, and creation) to consider what goes right and what goes wrong, and to explore computational models of these sorts of thinking. Written for students of the mind (psychologists, computer scientists, philosophers, linguists, and other cognitive scientists) it also provides general readers with a self-contained account of human and machine thinking. Phil Johnson-Laird presents his point of view, rather than a review, as simply as possible so that no technical background is required. Like the field of research itself, Human And Machine Thinking calls for hard thinking about thinking, and yet remains accessible for any non-specialist general reader.

Label: 1992