Philosophy and Cognitive Science: Western & Eastern Studies

✍ Scribed by Lorenzo Magnani (auth.), Lorenzo Magnani, Ping Li (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 291
• Series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics 2
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The book addresses a number of recent topics at the crossroad of philosophy and cognitive science, taking advantage of both the western and the eastern perspectives and conceptions that emerged and were discussed at the PCS2011 Conference recently held in Guangzhou. The ever growing cultural exchange between academics and intellectual belonging to different cultures is reverberated by the juxtaposition of papers, which aim at investigating new facets of crucial problems in philosophy: the role of models in science and the fictional approach; chance seeking dynamics and how affordances work; abductive cognition; visualization in science; the cognitive structure of scientific theories; scientific representation; mathematical representation in science; model-based reasoning; analogical reasoning; moral cognition; cognitive niches and evolution.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-8
Scientific Models Are Not Fictions....Pages 1-38
An Examination of the Thesis of Models as Representations....Pages 39-51
On Animal Cognition: Before and After the Beast-Machine Controversy....Pages 53-74
From Mindless Modeling to Scientific Models....Pages 75-104
The Greenhouse Metaphor and the Greenhouse Effect: A Case Study of a Flawed Analogous Model....Pages 105-114
A Study of Model and Representation Based on a Duhemian Thesis....Pages 115-141
From the Received View to the Model-Theoretic Approach....Pages 143-154
Cognitive Chance Discovery: From Abduction to Affordance....Pages 155-172
A Proposal on Belief, Abduction and Interpretation....Pages 173-184
Not by Luck Alone: The Importance of Chance-Seeking and Silent Knowledge in Abductive Cognition....Pages 185-203
Cognitive Abduction and the Study of Visual Culture....Pages 205-220
Understanding Scientific Inference in the Natural Sciences Based on Abductive Inference Strategies....Pages 221-237
Moral Intuitions vs. Moral Reasoning. A Philosophical Analysis of the Explanatory Models Intuitionism Relies On....Pages 239-262
Evolutionary Tolerance....Pages 263-287

✦ Subjects

Philosophy of Science; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Mathematical Models of Cognitive Processes and Neural Networks