Experiences of art involve exercise of ordinary cognitive and perceptual capacities but in unique ways. These two features of experiences of art imply the mutual importance of aesthetics and cognitive science. Cognitive science provides empirical and theoretical analysis of the relevant cognitive capacities. Aesthetics thus does well to incorporate cognitive scientific research. And aesthetics ...

The computer model of the mind has informed and guided debate in the cognitive sciences for over 40 years, and gives pride of place to symbols. In this paper I investigate the nature of computational symbols and show that even in the parade cases of symbolic computation, symbols are not doing all the semantic and computational work. This analysis has important consequences for the scope of cogn...

The aim of Schunn, Crowley and Okada’s (1998) study is to address the question of whether the current state of cognitive science, as represented by Cognitive Science and the Cognitive Science Society, “reflects the multidisciplinary ideals of its foundation.” To properly interpret and respond to their results, we need to ask a prior question: What is cognitive science’s multidisciplinary ideal?...

This paper reviews the uneven history of the relationship between Anthropology and Cognitive Science over the past 30 years, from its promising beginnings, followed by a period of disaffection, on up to the current context, which may lay the groundwork for reconsidering what Anthropology and (the rest of) Cognitive Science have to offer each other. We think that this history has important lesso...

Experiences of art involve exercise of ordinary cognitive and perceptual capacities but in unique ways. These two features of experiences of art imply the mutual importance of aesthetics and cognitive science. Cognitive science provides empirical and theoretical analysis of the relevant cognitive capacities. Aesthetics thus does well to incorporate cognitive scientific research. Aesthetics also...

Cognitive Linguistics (CL) is one of the principal branches of “second generation cognitive science”—the alliance of new approaches emerging from what has been called the “second cognitive revolution” of the last decade of the 20 century (Harré and Gillett, 1994). It is also the rightful inheritor of an older tradition, antedating the behaviorist ascendancy in mid-20 century psychology from whi...