Constructing a Philosophy of Science of Cognitive Science

Constructing a Philosophy of Science of Cognitive Science

Philosophy of science is positioned to make distinctive contributions to cognitive science by providing perspective on its conceptual foundations and by advancing normative recommendations. The philosophy of science I embrace is naturalistic in that it is grounded in the study of actual science. Focusing on explanation, I describe the recent development of a mechanistic philosophy of science fr...

The Philosophy of Cognitive Science

An Approach to Philosophy of Cognitive Science

A century ago, psychology was in the process of separating from philosophy and becoming an experimental science, while also distinguishing itself from physiology. It is usually said that the father of experimental psychology was Wilhelm Wundt, who began conducting experiments in a laboratory in Leipzig in 1879. The domain of Wundt's investigation was that of conscious mental states and processe...

Philosophy for the Rest of Cognitive Science

Cognitive science has always included multiple methodologies and theoretical commitments. The philosophy of cognitive science should embrace, or at least acknowledge, this diversity. Bechtel's (2009a) proposed philosophy of cognitive science, however, applies only to representationalist and mechanist cognitive science, ignoring the substantial minority of dynamically oriented cognitive scientis...

Philosophy of Cognitive Science ( 06 - 02483 )

Many people working in AI see the construction of an android with human-like abilities as the main goal of AI. For example, Charniak and McDermott write [4, p. 7]: The ultimate goal of AI research (which we are very far from achieving) is to build a person, or, more humbly, an animal. Those working on the MIT Cog Project are more explicit [3]: Building an android, an autonomous robot with human...