How to Build a Theory in Cognitive Science specifies the characteristics of fruitful interdisciplinary theories in cognitive science and shows how they differ from the successful theories in the individual disciplines composing the cognitive sciences. It articulates a method for…
How to Build a Theory in Cognitive Science specifies the characteristics of fruitful interdisciplinary theories in cognitive science and shows how they differ from the successful theories in the individual disciplines composing the cognitive sciences. It articulates a method for…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Augmented Cognition, FAC 2011, held in Orlando, FL, USA in July 2011, within the framework of the 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2011, with 11 other thematica…
Research on human intelligence has postulated that studying the structure and use of stories can provide important insight into the roots of self and the nature of thinking. In that spirit, this volume focuses on narrative as a crossroads where cognitive and social psychology, l…
This volume offers a useful resource that is both a historical and interdisciplinary introduction to the foundations of cognitive science. It traces the history of central concepts from the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century.
Of Post-Positivist Philosophy of Science5 THEORY REDUCTION AS A MODEL FOR RELATING DISCIPLINES; Introduction: Relating Disciplines by Relating Theories; The Theory Reduction Model and the Unity of Science Program; Arguments Against Trying to Reduce Psychology to Neuroscience; Re…
This text focuses on two major issues: the nature of scientific inquiry and the relations between scientific disciplines. Designed to introduce the basic issues and concepts in the philosophy of science, Bechtel writes for an audience with little or no philosophical background. …
