Introduction to Cognitive Approach in Graphic Science (2)

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...

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...

An Ecological Approach to Cognitive Science{1}

[1] Cognitive science is ready for a major reconceptualization.(1) This is not at all because efforts by its practitioners have failed, but rather because so much progress has been made. The need for reconceptualization arises from the fact that this progress has come at greater cost than necessary, largely because of more or less philosophical (at least metatheoretical) straightjackets still w...

A Moderate Approach to Embodied Cognitive Science

There are many research programs in cognitive science that urge a re-orientation under the banner of "embodied cognition." Most of these programs promote a rather radical alternative to "standard" or "classical" cognitivism (for a recent review, see Shapiro 2011). Despite the common label, the programs are very heterogeneous, and I shall make no attempt here to survey them or offer any taxonomy...