An Essential Difference Wheeler and Heidegger on the Relationship Between Science and Philosophy
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Michael Wheeler, in his book Reconstructing the Cognitive World, analyses the development of embedded-embodied cognitive science in the light of underlying philosophical differences about the constitution of human agency. On one side he sees orthodox computational cognitive science as holding to Cartesian conceptions of an abstract, disembodied reason deliberating over de-contextualised representations of the world. On the other side, he sees modern-day embodied-embedded cognitive scientists going beyond such Cartesianism to embrace concepts of human agency more in keeping with Heidegger’s account of Dasein in Being and Time. By bringing to light and criticising the Cartesian assumptions of the computationalists and by pointing out and clarifying the connections between embodied-embedded cognitive science and Heidegger’s philosophy, Wheeler aims to lay the “foundations of a genuinely nonCartesian cognitive science.”1 Along the way, Wheeler argues that Heidegger is a scientific realist who holds that modern science provides genuinely objective epistemic access to independently real entities. He takes this to show that Heidegger would not object to the incorporation of his account of Dasein into the broad framework of contemporary cognitive-scientific explanation. According to Wheeler, such explanation is:
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