Cognitive science: Mind as mirror

Mind: Introduction to cognitive science

Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science - A Review

literature and theories put forth to date. Thagard summarizes results of research to date: “the central hypothesis of cognitive science: Thinking can best be understood in terms of representational structures in the mind and computational procedures that operate on those structures” (p. 10). He uses a shorthand notation for this approach: the computational-representational understanding of mind...

Remaking the Science of Mind: Psychology as Natural Science

Psychology considered as a natural science began as Aristotelian “physics” or “natural philosophy” of the soul. C. Wolff placed psychology under metaphysics, coordinate with cosmology. Near the middle of the eighteenth century, Krueger, Godart, and Bonnet proposed approaching the mind with the techniques of the new natural science. At nearly the same time, Scottish thinkers placed psychology wi...

The Non-Classical Mind: Cognitive Science and Non-Classical Computing

This paper explores the ideas of non-classical computation (computing where one or more traditional assumptions about what defines computation have been dropped) in the context of cognitive science. A framework that classifies non-classical computing concepts is discussed, and the potential impact of each of these concepts on issues of cognition, mind and affect is analysed.

What Buddhism Taught Cognitive Science about Self, Mind and Brain

In the past twenty years, new optimism about the relevance of Buddhism to cognitive science has been expressed by a number of established researchers. In this article I ask what are the conceptual roots of this optimism, and which forms of development it inspired, with particular focus on selfhood, embodiment and meditation. The latter contains three distinct points of contact that are also rev...