Università Roma Tre

Cognitive science is the study of cognition as information processing by complex organisms or artificial systems. Cognitive science is not a discipline, but rather a “doctrine” that has oriented and is orienting inquiries in a number of disciplines — some descriptive and empirical (e.g., cognitive psychology, linguistics and, more recently, neuroscience), some speculative and foundational (e.g., philosophy), and some both speculative and applied (e.g., AI). This course will provide an introduction to cognitive science by exploring some foundational concepts and claims (such as the computational theory of mind, functionalism, the idea of folk psychology, and accounts of the nature of mental representation), as well as topics of contemporary research in cognitive science.

Massimo Marraffa e Alfredo Paternoster - Persone, menti, cervelli. Storia, metodi e modelli delle scienze della mente - Mondadori Education, Milano 2011.
(https://www.mondadorieducation.it/catalogo/persone-menti-cervelli-0037173/)
L’indice
Premessa; Parte prima – Fondamenti; 1 Origini e fondamenti della scienza cognitiva; 2 Teorie e modelli del cognitivismo classico; Parte seconda – Obiezioni e risposte; 3 L’espansione verticale; 4 L’espansione orizzontale; 5 L’olismo della cognizione centrale e l’ipotesi della modularità massiva; Parte terza – Nuovi territori; 6 La coscienza: il problema difficile?; 7 La cognizione sociale; 8 Cultura e cognizione; Conclusioni; Riferimenti bibliografici