After cognitivism: a reassessment of cognitive science and philosophy

This book comprises a collection of papers dealing with the reassessment of thinking in Cognitive Science and in Philosophy today. Still dependent on basicassumptions of Cartesian philosophy, Cognitive Science took over the mistakesof 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 isgrounded (and doesn’t fall into the trap of cultural relativism). Contains a comprehensive outline of the new orthodoxy in Cognitive Science Unique in covering both analytic and continental philosophy Focuses not only on new developments in Cognitive Science in a narrow sense; it simultaneously reveals the practical, ethical and economical relevance of ideas which can be traced back to Cognitive Science INDICE: 1. The Pragmatic Dimension: a Reassessment of Scientific Theories.2. Artificial Intelligence and the Embodiment of the Mind. 3. Socialization in the Internet between Dissolution and Extension of the Human Self. 4. New Research Strategies in Psychology and Psychotherapy. 5. Ethical and Economic aspects.

• ISBN: 978-1-4020-9991-5
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 250
• Fecha Publicación: 01/08/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés