The Prehistory of Cognitive Science

List of Contributors Preface Introduction PART I: THE ROOTS OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE IN THE EARLY MODERN ERA The Separation of Thought and Action in Western Tradition; S.Ohlsson Language and Thought: Descartes and Some Reflections on Venerable Themes; N.Chomsky Hobbes' Challenge; M.Dascal Doing It His Way: Hume's Theory of Ideas and Contemporary Cognitive Science; A.J.Jacobson Kant and Cognitive Science; A.Brook PART II: INNOVATIONS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY The Early Darwinians, Natural Selection and Cognitive Science; D.Ross Wundt's Theoretical Psychology: An Unknown Legacy From a Gilded Age; A.L.Blumenthal Frege: Furnishing Formal Foundations; P.Simons Remembering William James; T.B.Henley Freud's Interdisciplinary Fiasco; P.Kitcher