Husserl Intentionality and Cognitive Science

As this book makes clear current use of data structures such as frames scripts and stereotypes in psychology artificial intelligence and all the other disciplines now grouped together as Cognitive Science develop ideas already explored by Husserl who believed that the analysis of mental representations was the proper subject of philosophy psychology and other disciplines that deal with the mind.. This new anthology will serve as an ideal introduction to phenomenology for analytic philosophers both as a text and as the single most useful source book on Husserl for cognitive scientists.. Hubert L. Dreyfus is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley. He is author of the best-selling and controversial book What Computers Can't Do. Harrison Hall who has collaborated with Dreyfus on much of the book is on the philsophy faculty at the University of Delaware. An MIT Press/Bradford Book.