Grounding Social Sciences in Cognitive Sciences by Ron Sun

On Levels of Cognitive Modeling

The article first addresses the importance of cognitive modeling, in terms of its value to cognitive science (as well as other social and behavioral sciences). In particular, it emphasizes the use of cognitive architectures in this undertaking. Based on this approach, the article addresses, in detail, the idea of a multi-level approach that ranges from social to neural levels. In physical scien...

Symbol Grounding: A New Look At An Old Idea

Cognition and Multi-Agent Interaction: from Cognitive Modeling to Social Simulation by Ron Sun (ed.)

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Embodied Cognition as Grounding for Situatedness and Context in Mathematics Education

In this paper we analyze, from the perspective of ‘Embodied Cognition’, why learning and cognition are situated and context-dependent. We argue that the nature of situated learning and cognition cannot be fully understood by focusing only on social, cultural and contextual factors. These factors are themselves further situated and made comprehensible by the shared biology and fundamental bodily...

Grounded theory methodology for knowledge engineering

Grounded theory methods of inductive qualitative field research have been tried and tested in the social sciences with their strong commitment to empirical techniques. They can be used in knowledge engineering for grounding systems on empirical evidence wherever the domain experts’ natural way of thinking is qualitative. After an introductory explanation of grounded theory development we go thr...