Concept
Cognitive science
Overview
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary, scientific study of the mind and its processes. It examines the nature, the tasks, and the functions of cognition (in a broad sense). Mental faculties of concern to cognitive scientists include perception, memory, attention, reasoning, language, and emotion. To understand these faculties, cognitive scientists borrow from fields such as psychology, philosophy, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, linguistics, and anthropology. The typical analysis of cognitive science spans many levels of organization, from learning and decision-making to logic and planning; from neural circuitry to modular brain organization. One of the fundamental concepts of cognitive science is that "thinking can best be understood in terms of representational structures in the mind and computational procedures that operate on those structures."
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Such a co-operation of assimilations and complications is seen in the most striking manner in those processes of association which in ordinary life are called "recognitions," or, if the scope of the region of association over which the recognition stretches is indefinitely larger, are called "cognitions." We recognise, for example, an acquaintance, whom we have not seen for a long time. We know a table as a table…
Wilhelm Max Wundt, An Introduction to Psychology Translated from the Second German Edition
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The following is a graduated list of them. The genus is representation in general (representatio). Under it stands representation with consciousness (perceptio). A perception which relates solely to the subject as a modification of its state, is a sensation (sensatio), an objective perception is a cognition (cognitio). A cognition is either an intuition or a conception (intuitus vel conceptus). The former has an…
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
States what Cognitive science is.
On the other hand, the relations which science presents are causal relations; and, when properly taught, are understood as such. While language familiarises with non-rational relations, science familiarises with rational relations. While the one exercises memory only, the other exercises both memory and understanding.
Herbert Spencer, Essays on education and kindred subjects
States what Cognitive science is.
Philosophers who discussed Cognitive science
- Ned Block
- Ray Brassier
- Gilbert Harman
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Alvin Goldman
- John McDowell
- Noam Chomsky
- Evan Thompson
- David Chalmers
- Paul Thagard
- Jerry Fodor
- Steven Pinker
- Jay L. Garfield
- Language of thought hypothesis
- Andy Clark
- Hilary Putnam
- Jason Stanley
- David Hume
- Daniel Kolak
- Mark Johnson (philosopher)
- Franz Brentano
- Julien Offray de La Mettrie
- Daniel Dennett
Related ideas
- Empiricism
- Analogy
- Emotion
- Eleanor Rosch
- Cognition
- Artificial intelligence
- Alan Turing
- Genetics
- Herbert A. Simon
- John Searle
- Interdisciplinarity
- Analytic philosophy
- John von Neumann
- Kurt Gödel
- On the Soul
- Cognitive architecture
- Language
- Mind–body dualism
- Intentionality
- Language acquisition
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Functionalism (philosophy of mind)
- Mind
- Marvin Minsky
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Aesthetics.