TY - BOOK ID - 8060374 TI - After cognitivism : a reassessment of cognitive science and philosophy PY - 2009 SN - 9400791720 1402099916 9786612826733 1282826735 1402099924 PB - Dordrecht : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Artificial intelligence. KW - Philosophy (General). KW - Philosophy and cognitive science KW - Cognitive science KW - Cognition KW - Philosophy KW - Cognitive Science KW - Psychological Theory KW - Humanities KW - Mental Processes KW - Psychological Phenomena and Processes KW - Psychology KW - Psychiatry and Psychology KW - Behavioral Sciences KW - Behavioral Disciplines and Activities KW - Social Sciences KW - Philosophy & Religion KW - Cognitive science. KW - AI (Artificial intelligence) KW - Artificial thinking KW - Electronic brains KW - Intellectronics KW - Intelligence, Artificial KW - Intelligent machines KW - Machine intelligence KW - Thinking, Artificial KW - Philosophy. KW - Philosophy, general. KW - Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). KW - Bionics KW - Digital computer simulation KW - Electronic data processing KW - Logic machines KW - Machine theory KW - Self-organizing systems KW - Simulation methods KW - Fifth generation computers KW - Neural computers KW - Science KW - Philosophy of mind KW - Artificial Intelligence. KW - Mental philosophy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8060374 AB - 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). ER -