After Cognitivism: A Reassessment of Cognitive Science and Philosophy

✍ Scribed by Karl Leidlmair (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 226
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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).

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Towards a Technology- and Action-Oriented Methodology of Constructive Realism....Pages 3-22
The Three Enlightenments....Pages 23-35
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
How Representational Cognitivism Failed and is being replaced by Body/World Coupling....Pages 39-73
The New Orthodoxy: Humans, Animals, Heidegger and Dreyfus....Pages 75-85
The Key to the Chinese Room....Pages 87-96
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
The Play of Imagination: Extending the Literary Mind....Pages 99-120
Reading the World Upside Down: How to Deal with Frozen Knowledge....Pages 121-131
On the Significance of the ‘Lower’ Senses: Touch, Smell and Taste....Pages 133-143
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
We Can Think with the Implicit, As Well As with Fully-Formed Concepts....Pages 147-161
Embodied Knowledge in Design....Pages 163-179
The Second Cognitive Revolution....Pages 181-187
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
The Illusion of Free Will and its Acceptance....Pages 191-203
Three Concepts of Liberty....Pages 205-212
Premises and Promises of Theory Formation in Economics....Pages 213-225
Back Matter....Pages 227-229

✦ Subjects

Philosophy; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)