Cognitive Science and the Social: A Primer

ISBN-13: 9780815385677 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 226 str.

Stephen P. Turner

Opis

A serious encounter between cognitive neuroscience and social science is likely to be challenging, and transformative, for both parties. Although a literature has developed on proposals to integrate neuroscience and social science, these proposals go in divergent directions. None of them has a developed conception of social life. Turner surveys these issues, introduces the basic alternative conceptions both of the mental world and the social world, and shows how, with sufficient modification, they can be fit together in plausible ways.

The book is not a "new theory " of anything, but rather an exploration of the critical issues that relate to the social aspects of cognition which expands the topic from the social neuroscience of immediate interpersonal interaction to the whole range of places where social variation interacts with the cognitive. The focus is on the conceptual problems produced by any attempt to take these issues seriously, and also on the new resources and considerations relevant to doing so. But it is also on the need for a revision of social theoretical concepts in order to utilize these resources. The book points to some conclusions, especially about how the process of what was known as socialization needs to be understood in cognitive science friendly terms.

Spis treści

Foreword Preface: Cognitive Science Chapter 1: Perspectives on the Brain and Cognition: The Problem Domain Chapter 2: Standard and Non-Standard Approaches to Cognitive Science Chapter 3: Folk Psychology, the Background, and the Standard Model Chapter 4: Explaining and Understanding Action Chapter 5: Incorporating the Social into Cognitive Science: Affordances, Scaffolding, and Computational Complexity Chapter 6: Selves, Persons, and the Social Chapter 7: Social Theory and Cognitive Science Chapter 8: The Two Socials and the Verstehen Bubble

O autorze

Stephen P. Turner is Distinguished University Professor at the University of South Florida. He has written on issues of cognitive and social science since the 1980s, incorporating philosophy and science studies in related areas, and publishing two collections of articles on these topics: Brains/Practices/Relativism and Understanding the Tacit, as well as a number of other articles and chapters. Dr. Turner is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of twenty-five other books.