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After cognitivism
a reassessment of cognitive science and philosophy
Abstract
The present book comprises a collection of papers dealing with the reassessment of thinking in Cognitive Science and in Philosophy today. Still dependent on basic assumptions of Cartesian philosophy, Cognitive Science took over the mistakes of classical computational models. Instead of being treated as mere or pure explanations of mental processes with hindsight, these models were mistakenly used as more or less literal causal descriptions of the (working of the) mind. A clear insight into the relevance of embodied and embedded knowledge is not only a central topic in AI research; it can become a driving force for a reassessment of philosophy. Philosophy, which is struggling with the two opposite alternatives of cultural relativism and rationalism, both of which have turned out to be dead ends, is in need of a reassessment of reasoning. What is needed is a reasoning without reference to ultimate reasons which at the same time is grounded (and doesn't fall into the trap of cultural relativism).
Details | Table of Contents
pp.3-22
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9992-2_1pp.39-73
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9992-2_3humans, animals, Heidegger and Dreyfus
pp.75-85
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9992-2_4extending the literary mind
pp.99-120
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9992-2_6how to deal with frozen knowledge
pp.121-131
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9992-2_7touch, smell and taste
pp.133-143
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9992-2_8pp.147-161
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9992-2_9Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Dordrecht
Year: 2009
Pages: 229
ISBN (hardback): 978-1-4020-9991-5
ISBN (digital): 978-1-4020-9992-2
Full citation:
Leidlmair Karl (2009) After cognitivism: a reassessment of cognitive science and philosophy. Dordrecht, Springer.