Why post-cognitivism does not (necessarily) entail anti-computationalism

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 117-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Villalobos ◽  
Joe Dewhurst
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Cognitive Approaches ◽  
Cognitive Realism ◽  
Autopoietic Theory

Post-cognitive approaches to cognitive science, such as enactivism and autopoietic theory, are typically assumed to involve the rejection of computationalism. We will argue that this assumption results from the conflation of computation with the notion of representation, which is ruled out by the post-cognitivist rejection of cognitive realism. However, certain theories of computation need not invoke representation, and are not committed to cognitive realism, meaning that post-cognitivism need not necessarily imply anti-computationalism. Finally, we will demonstrate that autopoietic theory shares a mechanistic foundation with these theories of computation, and is therefore well-equipped to take advantage of these theories.

On responsiveness: Interfacing hermeneutics and discourse interpretation

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 645-653 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan Bell
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Sociocultural Context ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Discourse Studies ◽  
Discourse Interpretation ◽  
Cognitive Approaches ◽  
Old Testament Studies

The nine responses to my focus article ‘Re-constructing Babel: Discourse analysis, hermeneutics and the Interpretive Arc’ are cross-disciplinary, as is the article itself. They come from discourse studies (Van Dijk, Billig, Wodak), cognitive science (Tepe, Yeari and Van den Broek, Van Dijk), Old Testament studies (Billig), hermeneutics (Pellauer, Scott-Baumann), history (Gardner) and literature (Pratt). I identify and address five main issues which I see these responses raising for discourse interpretation: the role of author intent and the original sociocultural context in interpretation; principles of translation, particularly in relation to the Babel story; issues of certainty and subjectivism in interpretation, again including the Babel story; the role and limitations of cognitive approaches, and the potential of images like ‘unfolding the matter of the text’ to be realized in teaching hands-on discourse work; and finally a call to new listening in the encounter with hermeneutics, as a route to freshening the field I like to call Discourse Interpretation.

Consonance and Dissonance

2018 ◽  
pp. 436-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Rehding
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Music Theory ◽  
Fundamental Importance ◽  
Joseph Haydn ◽  
Alban Berg ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Cognitive Approaches ◽  
Simultaneous Intervals ◽  
Consonance And Dissonance

Despite their fundamental importance to music theory, consonance and dissonance are surprisingly slippery concepts. They cannot unequivocally be identified as acoustical, aesthetic, physiological, psychological, or cultural-historical. This chapter examines a wide range of approaches to consonance/dissonance, focusing on four debates: the age-old sensus/ratio discussion, contrapuntal treatises, non-Western evidence from cognitive science, and evolutionary arguments. The discussion includes musical examples by Joseph Haydn, Alban Berg, Tsimane′ singing, and various European compositions from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. It is impossible to fully close the gap between different approaches, in part because different definitions take their starting points in different objects: cognitive approaches work with sounds while music-theoretical traditions work with notes and intervals. But the diversity of approaches opens up new angles on certain conflations that music theory often tolerates—such as the equivocation between successive and simultaneous intervals—to illustrate how the consonance/dissonance pair functions in different contexts.

scholarly journals The Uses of Cognition in Policy Analysis: A First Appraisal

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodolphe Gouin ◽  
Jean-Baptiste Paul Harguindéguy
Keyword(s):  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
Policy Analysts ◽  
Cognitive Approaches ◽  
Conceptual Transfer ◽  
Common Label

Cognitive approaches have become very fashionable in the field of policy analysis. Nevertheless, despite a common label, cognitive policy analyses vary greatly from one author to the next. So, are policy analysts talking about the same thing? Drawing on the dichotomy established by Sperber between soft cognition and hard cognition, we guess that not all authors seek to transfer theoretical assumptions from one scientific discipline to another. In order to demonstrate this hypothesis, we propose to round out these formal categories with additional sub-divisions based on the degree of conceptual transfer from cognitive science to policy analysis..

scholarly journals The Future of International Law is Cognitive—International Law, Cognitive Sociology and Cognitive Pragmatics

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 430-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedikt Pirker ◽  
Jennifer Smolka
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
International Law ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Cognitive Sociology ◽  
The Future ◽  
Cognitive Approaches

AbstractScholars today discuss international law from various methodological angles. This Article aims to add perspectives from cognitive science, namely cognitive sociology and cognitive linguistics, or, to be more precise, cognitive pragmatics. It briefly elaborates on these fields’ respective approaches, benefits, and limits. To clearly delineate the usefulness of the methodologies, this Article separately applies both approaches to the same example of a process of interpretation in international law. This Article concludes that the two cognitive approaches can help lawyers better understand and implement international law. This not only provides a description of the process of interpretation, but will hopefully enable a better practice of international law.

Epilogue

2019 ◽  
pp. 497-504
Author(s):  
Thomas Wynn
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Cognitive Ability ◽  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Practical Utility ◽  
Cognitive Archaeology ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Powerful Approach ◽  
Cognitive Approaches ◽  
Post Hoc

Contributions to evolutionary cognitive archaeology (ECA) now present a wide range of commitments to cognitive science itself. It is still common to find quasi-cognitive approaches that rely on terms with little to no grounding in formal cognitive science, but which also have practical utility, especially when discussing technical cognition. Many ECA practitioners now employ terms and concepts grounded in cognitive science, most often cognitive neuroscience, though most of these remain post hoc applications. A more powerful approach begins with a cognitive ability of interest, identifies representative activities that would leave an archaeological signature, and traces their development in archaeological record. Such an approach not only enhances the picture presented by the standard narrative of paleoanthropology but also puts ECA in a position to make positive contributions to cognitive science itself.

Language as a mental travel guide

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles P. Davis ◽  
Gerry T. M. Altmann ◽  
Eiling Yee
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Travel Guide

Abstract Gilead et al.'s approach to human cognition places abstraction and prediction at the heart of “mental travel” under a “representational diversity” perspective that embraces foundational concepts in cognitive science. But, it gives insufficient credit to the possibility that the process of abstraction produces a gradient, and underestimates the importance of a highly influential domain in predictive cognition: language, and related, the emergence of experientially based structure through time.

Minding the Heart: Cognitive Science and Process Spirituality

2003 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 745-748 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Mahoney
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science
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