One plausible interpretation of Hume’s famous claim that “reason is, and ought to be, the slave of the passions” holds that desires are necessary to motivation, that beliefs alone cannot motivate. Now some have held, against Hume, that there are in fact beliefs which could motivate all by themselves—namely, beliefs about what is good. For there to be such beliefs then cognitivism about value—th...

1 What the book is about The Embodied Mind classiies all research in cognitive science into three major categories; cognitivist, emergent and enactive. Cognitivism is described as \no computation without representation" and is criticized for holding to the view of a world with pregiven features that are subsequently represented by cognitive systems. The criticism is not directed at the failure ...

The article is devoted to the study of electoral choice. It proved that it a complex phenomenon requires comprehensive in framework different approaches, which are formed behaviorism, postmodernism, cognitivism, moral and communicative philosophy. has been shown choice related analysis thought processes. Given unrestricted dissemination information growing role irrational aspects, political beh...

Classical approaches to artiicial intelligence have in recent years been challenged by several alternative approaches. This review article focuses on one such alternative, which has come to be called`Situated Action' (SA). I analyze recent research allied with this alternative approach, and identify ve major themes that distinguish SA from more traditional research. I conclude that though much ...

In this paper two concepts of psychologism in logic are outlined: the one which Frege and Husserl fought against and the new psychologism, or cognitivism, which underlies a cognitive turn in contemporary logic. Four issues such cognitively oriented logic should be interested in are indicated. They concern: new fields opened for logical analysis, new methods and tools needed to address these fie...

This article presents fifteen different design theories from the behaviorism, cognitivism, and humanism schools of psychology. Information about the theories is presented as a response to three research questions. Descriptions and online learning empirical evidence of eight of the theories are illustrated first. Then, descriptions of seven additional design theories which have not yet been rese...

There are many research programs in cognitive science that urge a re-orientation under the banner of "embodied cognition." Most of these programs promote a rather radical alternative to "standard" or "classical" cognitivism (for a recent review, see Shapiro 2011). Despite the common label, the programs are very heterogeneous, and I shall make no attempt here to survey them or offer any taxonomy...