COGNITIVE SCIENTISM OF SCIENCE
Commentary on Giere on Science-Cognition

Abstract

In this review of Cognitive Models of Science (CSS, Giere 1992), I express skepticism about its ability to (dis)solve all foundational issues concerning science and suggest that CSS would do better to redirect its attention to the foundational problems that beset cognitive science itself. Not only CSS but the social and philosophical approaches to science too are, in their extreme forms, caricatures, based on the same scientistic model. What is needed instead is a recognition of the priority of the Manifest Image over the Scientific Image.

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