Cognitive Pluralism

An argument that we understand the world through many special-purpose mental models of different content domains, and an exploration of the philosophical implications.;Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; I#From the Standard View to Cognitive Pluralism; 1#Introduction: Beliefs, Concepts, and Mental Models; 2#A Standard Philosophical View of Cognitive Architecture; 3#Central and Modular Cognition; 4#Beyond Modularity and Central Cognition; 5#Cognitive Pluralism; II#Models and Understanding; 6#Models; 7#Mental Models; 8#Relations between Models; 9#Other Model-Based Approaches; 10#The Plausibility of Cognitive Pluralism; 11#The Complementarity of Models and Language; III#Epistemology, Semantics, Disunity.