Reconstructing the cognitive world: the next step
Editorial THE MIT PRESS
España peninsular
- Editorial THE MIT PRESS
- ISBN13 9780262232401
- ISBN10 0262232405
- Tipo LIBRO
- Páginas 340
- Año de Edición 2005
- Encuadernación Tela
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Filosofía De La MenteReconstructing the cognitive world: the next step
Editorial THE MIT PRESS
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
"In Reconstructing the Cognitive World, Michael Wheeler argues that we should turn away from the generically Cartesian philosophical foundations of much contemporary cognitive science research and proposes instead a Heideggerian approach. Wheeler begins with an interpretation of Descartes. He defines Cartesian psychology as a conceptual framework of explanatory principles and shows how each of these principles is part of the deep assumptions of orthodox cognitive science (both classical and connectionist). Wheeler then turns to Heidegger's radically non-Cartesian account of everyday cognition, which, he argues, can be used to articulate the philosophical foundations of a genuinely non-Cartesian cognitive science." Wheeler's argument draws on analytic philosophy, continental philosophy, and empirical work to "reconstruct" the philosophical foundations of cognitive science in a time of a fundamental shift away from a generically Cartesian approach. His analysis demonstrates that Heideggerian continental philosophy and naturalistic cognitive science need not be mutually exclusive and shows further that a Heideggerian framework can act as the "conceptual glue" for new work in cognitive science.