Zenon Pylyshyn
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 2 years ago |
Date of birth | August 25,1937 |
Zodiac sign | Virgo |
Schools of thought | Rationalism |
Analytic philosophy | |
Functionalism | |
Cognitivism | |
Influenced by | Jerry Fodor |
Job | Philosopher |
Books | Minds Without Meanings: An Essay on the Content of Concepts |
Things and Places | |
Seeing and Visualizing: It's Not What You Think | |
Computation and Cognition: Toward a Foundation for Cognitive Science | |
Perspectives on the computer revolution | |
Born | Montreal |
Canada | |
Era | 20th-century philosophy |
Functionalism | |
Rationalism | |
Analytic philosophy | |
Cognitivism | |
Education | McGill University |
University of Saskatchewan | |
Awards | Jean Nicod Prize |
Died | New York |
New York | |
United States | |
Date of died | December 6,2022 |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 460538 |
Zenon Pylyshyn Life story
Zenon Walter Pylyshyn FRSC was a Canadian cognitive scientist and philosopher. He was a Canada Council Senior Fellow from 1963 to 1964. Pylyshyn's research generally involved the theoretical analysis of the nature of the human cognitive systems behind perception, imagination, and reasoning.