Until recently there were only scattered essays and one book attempting to apply cognitivist assumptions to film and emotions.l The very question seemed strange: how could cognitivism, with its emphasis on rational processes, hope to explain the irrational world of filmic emotion? Yet in the past few years several landmark books have appeared which pose compelling answers to that question.2 It ...

INTRODUCTION The literature shows an optimistic landscape for the effectiveness of games in medical education. Nevertheless, games are not considered mainstream material in medical teaching. Two research questions that arise are the following: What pedagogical strategies do developers use when creating games for medical education? And what is the quality of the evidence on the effectiveness of ...

In the action-space account of color, an emphasis is laid on implicit knowledge when it comes to experience, and explanatory ambitions are expressed. If the knowledge claims are interpreted in a strong way, the action-space account becomes a form of conservative enactivism, which is a kind of cognitivism. Only if the knowledge claims are weakly interpreted, the action space-account can be seen ...

IT IS WITH BOTH PRIDE AND HESITATION THAT I AGREED TO WRITE THIS ARTICLE ON phenomenology and logical analysis. John Searle and Bert Dreyfus are for me two of the paradigm figures of contemporary philosophy, so I am extremely proud to have been offered the opportunity to engage with their work. The editors of The Harvard Review of Philosophy, it seems to me, have shown a keen sense of what is d...

From the perspective of contemporary psychology’s identity as both a biological/neurobiological and social science, it may be hard to imagine that it was only in the 1970s that clinical neuropsychology began its emergence as a clearly defi ned discipline in private practice and medical settings. Although many of the techniques and concepts that form the basis of modern practice of neuropsycholo...

We investigate from the competence standpoint two recent models of lexical semantics, algebraic conceptual representations and continuous vector models. Characterizing what it means for a speaker to be competent in lexical semantics remains perhaps the most significant stumbling block in reconciling the two main threads of semantics, Chomsky’s cognitivism and Montague’s formalism. As Partee (19...

The symbol grounding problem as understood today can be traced back at least to Cartesian dualism and medieval times. René Descartes postulated that the mind is an immaterial thinking thing essentially distinct from the non-thinking material body, only then to face the 'problem of interactionism,' i.e. explaining how an immaterial mind can cause anything in a material body, and vice versa. Toda...

The computational paradigm, which has dominated the study of mind over the last decades, is facing a number of fundamental problems. These problems can all be traced back to an underlying issue, which will be called "the problem of a prioris". This is the result of the concern with the question of how knowledge is used, while the question regarding its acquisition is ignored. A series of models...

The tentatives of the pioneer cognitivists. This paper intends to offer more exact information about Oswald Külpe and his application of the experimental method on cognitive processes. How do we think? Are perceptive images always necessary to create our thinking? What is the speed of our thinking and how do we solve problems? With the support of his students – several of them were to be eminen...

Cognitivism about practical reason is the view that intentions involve beliefs, and that the rational requirements on intentions can be explained in terms of the rational requirements on the beliefs that figure in intentions. In particular, cognitivists about practical reason have sought to provide cognitive explanations of two basic requirements of practical rationality: a consistency requirem...