Arguments for the cognitive social sciences

Grounding Social Sciences in Cognitive Sciences by Ron Sun

A (eu)social Conquest of the Psychological and Cognitive Sciences?

Human nature derives from the conflict between our better and poorer “angels.” This much one can glean from the pages of literature, history, philosophy, and (when read from a non-theistic perspective) theology. In The Social Conquest of Earth (SCE), biologist Edward O. Wilson goes on to attribute this conflict to multilevel natural selection, “in which individual selection and group selection ...

Cognitive Arguments for a Fuzzy Construction Grammar

Following Desagulier (2005), I assume that it is by studying intermediate forms that we can gain a better understanding of creativity and innovation, from both a linguistic and a cognitive perspective. My case studies tend to show that form/function reshuffling is best understood as a grammatical blend, for which I offer a new definition, based on a critical examination of works by Fauconnier a...

Why Medical Informatics (still) Needs Cognitive and Social Sciences.

OBJECTIVES To summarize current excellent medical informatics research in the field of human factors and organizational issues. METHODS Using PubMed, a total of 3,024 papers were selected from 17 journals. The papers were evaluated on the basis of their title, keywords, and abstract, using several exclusion and inclusion criteria. 15 preselected papers were carefully evaluated by six referees...

Arguments in social networks

In spite of a substantive claim for the adoption of agentbased models for social simulation, a shared framework to model key reasoning capabilities of social agents has not been developed yet. To fill this gap, we propose a new model, whereby agents belonging to a social network reason and interact argumentatively, and use trust and coherence setting in order to decide whether and how to revise...