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THE PLACE OF PHILOSOPHY IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE During the last few
years, many books have been published and many meetings have been
held on Cognitive Science. A cursory review of their contents shows
such a diversity of topics and approaches that one might well infer
that there are no genuine criteria for classifying a paper or a
lecture as a contribution to Cognitive Science. It is as though the
only criterion is to have appeared in a book or in the programme of
a meeting or title we can find the expression " . . . Cognitive
Science" in whose name or something like that. Perhaps this
situation is due to the (relative) youth of the field, which is
seeking its own identity, still involved in a process of formation
and consolidation within the scientific community; but there are
actually deep disagreements about how a science of the mind should
be worked out, including how to understand its own subject, that
is, "the mind. "While for some the term makes reference to a set of
phenomena impossible to grasp by any scientific approach, for
others "the mind" would be a sort of myth, and the mental terms
await elimination by other more handy and empirically tractable
terms.
PHILOSOPHY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE: CATEGORIES, CONSCIOUSNESS, AND
REASONING The individual man, since his separate existence is
manifested only by ignorance and error, so far as he is anything
apart from his fellows, and from what he and they are to be, is
only a negation. Peirce, Some Consequences of Four Incapacities.
1868. For the second time the International Colloquium on Cognitive
Science gathered at San Sebastian from May, 7-11, 1991 to discuss
the following main topics: Knowledge of Categories Consciousness
Reasoning and Interpretation Evolution, Biology, and Mind It is not
an easy task to introduce in a few words the content of this
volume. We have collected eleven invited papers presented at the
Colloquium, which means the substantial part of it. Unfortunately,
it has not been possible to include all the invited lectures of the
meeting. Before sketching and showing the relevance of each paper,
let us explain the reasons for having adopted the decision to
organize each two years an international colloquium on Cognitive
Science at Donostia (San Sebastian). First of all, Cognitive
Science is a very active research area in the world, linking
multidisciplinary efforts coming mostly from psychology, artificial
intelligence, theoretical linguistics and neurobiology, and using
more and more formal tools. We think that this new discipline lacks
solid foundations, and in this sense philosophy, particularly
knowledge theory, and logic must be called for.
PHILOSOPHY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE: CATEGORIES, CONSCIOUSNESS, AND
REASONING The individual man, since his separate existence is
manifested only by ignorance and error, so far as he is anything
apart from his fellows, and from what he and they are to be, is
only a negation. Peirce, Some Consequences of Four Incapacities.
1868. For the second time the International Colloquium on Cognitive
Science gathered at San Sebastian from May, 7-11, 1991 to discuss
the following main topics: Knowledge of Categories Consciousness
Reasoning and Interpretation Evolution, Biology, and Mind It is not
an easy task to introduce in a few words the content of this
volume. We have collected eleven invited papers presented at the
Colloquium, which means the substantial part of it. Unfortunately,
it has not been possible to include all the invited lectures of the
meeting. Before sketching and showing the relevance of each paper,
let us explain the reasons for having adopted the decision to
organize each two years an international colloquium on Cognitive
Science at Donostia (San Sebastian). First of all, Cognitive
Science is a very active research area in the world, linking
multidisciplinary efforts coming mostly from psychology, artificial
intelligence, theoretical linguistics and neurobiology, and using
more and more formal tools. We think that this new discipline lacks
solid foundations, and in this sense philosophy, particularly
knowledge theory, and logic must be called for.
THE PLACE OF PHILOSOPHY IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE During the last few
years, many books have been published and many meetings have been
held on Cognitive Science. A cursory review of their contents shows
such a diversity of topics and approaches that one might well infer
that there are no genuine criteria for classifying a paper or a
lecture as a contribution to Cognitive Science. It is as though the
only criterion is to have appeared in a book or in the programme of
a meeting or title we can find the expression " . . . Cognitive
Science" in whose name or something like that. Perhaps this
situation is due to the (relative) youth of the field, which is
seeking its own identity, still involved in a process of formation
and consolidation within the scientific community; but there are
actually deep disagreements about how a science of the mind should
be worked out, including how to understand its own subject, that
is, "the mind. "While for some the term makes reference to a set of
phenomena impossible to grasp by any scientific approach, for
others "the mind" would be a sort of myth, and the mental terms
await elimination by other more handy and empirically tractable
terms.
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