Barbara Von Eckardt

• Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy Case Western Reserve University
• Professor at Rhode Island School of Design

Numerous philosophical questions can be raised about cognitive science, including what cognitive science is, what counts as representation, computation, and explanation in cognitive science, and what the limits of cognitive science are.

The aim of this paper is to examine the usefulness of the Machamer, Darden, and Craver (2000) mechanism approach to gaining an understanding of explanation in cognitive neuroscience. We argue that although the mechanism approach can capture many aspects of explanation in cognitive neuroscience, it cannot capture everything. In particular, it cannot...

Ramsey (1997) argues that connectionist representations ‘do not earn their explanatory keep’. The aim of this paper is to examine the argument Ramsey gives to support that conclusion. In doing so, I identify two kinds of explanatory need—need relative to a possible explanation and need relative to a true explanation and argue that internal represen...

One of the principal tenets of contemporary cognitive psychology is that there are mental representations. In this paper I consider two critiques of that assumption by philosophers who are otherwise disposed to be friendly towards cognitive psychology. In other words, these are not radical critiques; each critic believes that, if understood in the...

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...

There are many different kinds of psychology: abnormal, behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, physiological, personality, and social, to name some of the major categories. In recent years, philosophers of psychology (in the sense under discussion today) have focused primarily on cognitive psychology and Freudian psychoanalysis (which cros...

Für seine meisterhafte, umfassende Behandlung der Frage, welche wissenschaftliche Stellung die Freudsche Psychoanalyse einnimmt, verdient Grünbaum nur Lob. Wenn es einen Schwachpunkt in seiner Arbeit gibt, dann liegt er im stilistischen Bereich. Seine Prosa ist von einer solchen Dichte und seine Argumente sind so komplex, daß ich fürchte, man sieht...

Adolf Grünbaum wurde am 15. Mai 1923 in Köln geboren. Er erwarb seinen B. A. in Mathematik und Philosophie 1943 mit einer hohen Auszeichnung an der Wesleyan University, seinen M. S. in Physik im Jahre 1948 an der Yale University und seinen Ph.D. in Philosophie im Jahre 1951 an der Yale University. Im Jahre 1950 begann er mit seiner Lehrtätigkeit an...

When a sentence with more than one clause is processed, words of the first clause become less available for recall or recognition once the clause boundary has been passed. One common interpretation of this observation is that the representation of a given word shifts from a predominantly surface form (e.g., phonological or lexical) to a semantic fo...

Two hypotheses about the association between the equivalent words in a bilingual's two languages are considered. The word association hypothesis proposes that a direct association is established between words in the two languages. During second-language acquisition, that association is used to understand and produce words in the second language by...

within the communities of psychiatry and clinical psychology, the dominant framework for conceptualizing psychopathology is codified in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric Association / our view is that DSM constitutes a faulty conceptualization of the domain of psychopathology and that it interfere...

En vista que las ciencias cognitivas son un campo de estudio relativamente nuevo, y debido a su multidisciplinariedad (se entrecruzan la lingüística, la psicología cognitiva, las neurociencias, la filosofía de la ciencia, la filosofía de la mente y la inteligencia artificial), la autora de esta obra trata de explicar a qué se dedica un profesional...