Anthropology and Cognitive Science

Anthropology in Cognitive Science

This paper reviews the uneven history of the relationship between Anthropology and Cognitive Science over the past 30 years, from its promising beginnings, followed by a period of disaffection, on up to the current context, which may lay the groundwork for reconsidering what Anthropology and (the rest of) Cognitive Science have to offer each other. We think that this history has important lesso...

Should Anthropology Be Part of Cognitive Science?

Anthropology and the other cognitive science (CS) subdisciplines currently maintain a troubled relationship. With a debate in topiCS we aim at exploring the prospects for improving this relationship, and our introduction is intended as a catalyst for this debate. In order to encourage a frank sharing of perspectives, our comments will be deliberately provocative. Several challenges for a succes...

Folk biology and the anthropology of science: cognitive universals and cultural particulars.

This essay in the "anthropology of science" is about how cognition constrains culture in producing science. The example is folk biology, whose cultural recurrence issues from the very same domain-specific cognitive universals that provide the historical backbone of systematic biology. Humans everywhere think about plants and animals in highly structured ways. People have similar folk-biological...

Anthropology and the Science of "Race"

cognitive science and econmic performance

in this article,we briefly analyse cognitive science and cognitive economics. generally, there are two main theories related to cognitive science and brain performance models. first theory which are inspired by computer and artifical intelligence and second the connectionist models. the connectionist theory is the most prevalent in cognitive science now. hayek and north ,the two nobel laureates...