Cognition, Semantics and Philosophy: Proceedings of the First International Colloqium on Cognitive Science (1992) (Philosophical Studies Series #52)
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- Synopsis
- THE PLACE OF PHILOSOPHY IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE During the last few years, many books have been published and many meetings have been held on Cognitive Science. A cursory review of their contents shows such a diversity of topics and approaches that one might well infer that there are no genuine criteria for classifying a paper or a lecture as a contribution to Cognitive Science. It is as though the only criterion is to have appeared in a book or in the programme of a meeting or title we can find the expression " . . . Cognitive Science" in whose name or something like that. Perhaps this situation is due to the (relative) youth of the field, which is seeking its own identity, still involved in a process of formation and consolidation within the scientific community; but there are actually deep disagreements about how a science of the mind should be worked out, including how to understand its own subject, that is, "the mind. "While for some the term makes reference to a set of phenomena impossible to grasp by any scientific approach, for others "the mind" would be a sort of myth, and the mental terms await elimination by other more handy and empirically tractable terms.
- Copyright:
- 1992
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- ISBN-13:
- 9789401126106
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780792315384
- Publisher:
- Springer Netherlands
- Date of Addition:
- 07/14/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
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- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Computers and Internet, Language Arts, Philosophy
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- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- J. Ezquerro
- Edited by:
- Jesús M. Larrazabal
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