Gary L. Hardcastle (1994) Why Don't we yet Have a Cognitive Science of Science?
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Psycoloquy 5(43): Why Don't we yet Have a Cognitive Science of Science?
WHY DON'T WE YET HAVE A COGNITIVE SCIENCE OF SCIENCE?
Book review of Giere on Scientific Cognition
Gary L. Hardcastle
Department of Philosophy
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0126
garyhard@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu
Abstract
The cognitive science of science is not yet here. This
can be seen from the volume under review (Giere, 1992) by attending
to the diversity and mutual incompatibility of its contents. I
consider several of the papers in turn and then discuss reasons why
there is not yet a cognitive science of science.
Keywords
Cognitive science, philosophy of science, cognitive
models, artificial intelligence, computer science, cognitve
neuroscience.
References
- Giere, R.N. (1993) Precis of Cognitive Models of Science. PSYCOLOQUY 4(56) scientific-cognition.1.giere.
- Giere, R.N. (1992) Cognitive Models of Science. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, volume 15. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
- Johnson-Laird, P.N. (1983) Mental Models (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press).
- Kitcher, P.S. (1978) Theory, theorists, and theory change, Philosophical Review LXXXVII (4), pp. 519-547.
- Smith, Laurence D. (1986) Behaviorism and Logical Positivism: A Reassessment of the Alliance (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press).
- Spelke, E.S. (1991) Physical knowledge in infancy: reflections on Piaget's theory, in S. Carey and R. Gelman (eds.) The Epigenesis of Mind: Essays in Biology and Cognition (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum) (pp. 133-169).
- Uebel, T. (1992) Overcoming Logical Positivism from Within: The Emergence of Neurath's Naturalism in the Vienna Circle's Protocol Sentence Debate (Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi).