Introduction: Philosophy in and Philosophy of Cognitive Science

Philosophy of Science: Introduction

Philosophy of Science : An Introduction

The Philosophy of Cognitive Science

Philosophy of Cognitive Science ( 06 - 02483 ) Philosophy Handout ( 2007 – 2008 )

There are many different kinds of philosophy. For example, there is Indian philosophy (which has its roots in the ancient body of oral tradition known as the Veda), Islamic philosophy, Japanese philosophy and Chinese philosophy. However, none of these have had any real influence on the scientific tradition in which cognitive science has grown up. That scientific tradition is Western science and...

Neuroethology and the philosophy of cognitive science

Neuroethology is a branch of biology that studies the neural basis of naturally occurring animal behavior. This science, particularly a recent program called computational neuroethology, has a similar structure to the interdisciplinary endeavor of cognitive science. I argue that it would be fruitful to conceive of cognitive science as the computational neuroethology of humans. However, there ar...