José Luis Bermúdez is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. He has been involved in teaching and research in cognitive science for over twenty years, and is very much involved in bringing an interdisciplinary focus to cognitive science through involvement with conference organization and journals. His 100+ publications include the textbook Philosophy of Psychology: A Contemporary Introduction (2005) and a companion collection of readings, Philosophy of Psychology: Contemporary Readings (2007). He has authored the monographs The Paradox of Self-Consciousness (1998), Thinking without Words (2003), and Decision Theory and Rationality (2009) in addition to editing a number of collections including The Body and the Self (1995), Reason and Nature (2002), and Thought, Reference, and Experience (2005).
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Chapter 1 explored some of the very different theoretical developments that ultimately gave rise to what is now known as cognitive science. Already some of the basic principles of cognitive science have begun to emerge, such as the idea that cognition is to be understood as information processing and that information processing can be understood as an algorithmic process. Another prominent theme is the methodology of trying to understand how particular cognitive systems work by breaking down the cognitive tasks that they perform into more specific and determinate tasks. In this second chapter of our short and selective historical survey we will look closely at three milestones in the development of cognitive science. Each section explores a very different topic. In each of them, however, we start to see some of the theoretical ideas canvassed in the previous section being combined and applied to understanding specific cognitive systems and cognitive abilities.
In the late 1970s cognitive science became an established part of the intellectual landscape. At that time an academic field crystallized around a basic set of problems, techniques, and theoretical assumptions. These problems, techniques, and theoretical assumptions came from many different disciplines and areas. Many of them had been around for a fairly long time. What was new was the idea of putting them together as a way of studying the mind.
Cognitive science is at heart an interdisciplinary endeavor. In interdisciplinary research great innovations come about simply because people see how to combine things that are already out there but have never been put together before. One of the best ways to understand cognitive science is to try to think your way back until you can see how things might have looked to its early pioneers. They were exploring a landscape in which certain regions were well mapped and well understood, but where there were no standard ways of getting from one region to another. An important part of what they did was to show how these different regions could be connected in order to create an interdisciplinary science of the mind.
28.Among this generation we find Atocha Aliseda (logic and philosophy ofscience), Axel Barceló (logic, philosophy of cognitive scienceand mathematics, logical form), Angeles Eraña (modularity,reasoning, epistemology), Maite Ezcurdia (semantics, indexicals,linguistic competence, nativism, perception), Miguel AngelFernández (skepticism and epistemology), Max Fernándezde Castro (philosophy language and mathematics), Claudia Lorena Garcia(philosophy of biology and cognitive science, especially onmodularity, nativism, etc.), Eduardo García Ramírez(philosophy of cognitive science and philosophy of language,especially proper names), Mario Gómez-Torrente (philosophy oflogic and language, vagueness, rigidity for general terms), GuillermoHurtado (epistemology and ontology, especially metaphilosophy andhistory of philosophy in Mexico), Gustavo Ortiz Millán (appliedethics, moral psychology, philosophy of mind), Ana RosaPérez-Ransanz (philosophy of science), Silvio Pinto (philosophyof language and epistemology), Pedro Ramos (propositional attitudeascriptions, descriptions and proper names), Faviola Rivera (practicalphilosophy), Pedro Stepanenko (philosophy, Kantian philosophy,philosophy of mind), Alejandro Tomassini Bassols (Wittgenstein),Lourdes Valdivia (philosophy of language).
36.Some of whom include: Santiago Amaya (philosophy of cognitive science and language, moral psychology), Santiago Arango (philosophy of mind and cognitive sciences), Ignacio Ávila Cañamares (perception), Tomás Andrés Barrero Guzmán (theory of action and meaning), Marta Betancur (semantic and pragmatic, language games,hermeneutics, philosophy of language, Wittgenstein), Carlos CardonaSuárez (Carnap, Wittgenstein, colors, holism), Adrian Cussins (perception, non-conceptual content, concepts), Santiago Echeverri (philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, and epistemology), Alfonzo Flores (dedicated to the philosophy of language and mind in Wittgenstein), Raúl Meléndez (Wittgenstein, rule following), Andrés Paez (epistemology, belief revision), Jaime Ramos (philosophy of language and mind, cognitive sciences, nativism) and AlejandroRosas (emotions, moral psychology).
The default plan is to cover the following TUTORIAL TOPICS. We begin by looking at the metatheory of cognitive science, focusing on classic work by Chomsky in linguistics and Marr on vision. These first two weeks provide some theoretical background to the next two topics, the classical computational theory of mind, as it is articulated by one of its leading proponents, Jerry Fodor, and one of the main alternatives to it, connectionism. We then look at modularity and consciousness, exploring the potential limits of cognitive science. The topic of the last week is left open, giving you scope to pursue your own areas of interest. Options here include, but are not limited to, the OTHER TOPICS.
EITHER(a) Is evidence from double dissociation categorically superior to other kinds of evidence in the cognitive sciences?OR(b) How has the development of implemented computational models of cognitive processes contributed to cognitive psychology and cognitive neuropsychology? (2017) 2ff7e9595c
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