Prepared by Yasmin Sali
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Cognition – all the mental activities
associated with thinking, knowing, and
remembering information.
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About philosophers
Other possibilities (about the mind, the self,
nativism, empiricism...)
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disciplines studying cognition: psychology, neuroscience, artificial
intelligence, linguistics, etc.; this is the primary way in which the
PhilPapers is currently organized.
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topic in the philosophy of science: explanation, reduction, etc.
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topic specific to the study of cognition: mental representation,
computation, embodiment, consciousness, etc.
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area of cognition under discussion: perception, motor control,
language, reasoning, consciousness, etc. The philosophy of
cognitive science overlaps with the philosophy of mind.
Terms:
 Agnosticism
 Skepticism
 "The One Knowledge of Everything“
 The subject of cognition
 Object of cognition
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The basic question for philosophy has been, and
still is, what practical, vital meaning does reliable
knowledge have about the world, about man
himself and human society.
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What is more important in cognition - the
sensual or the rational?
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In general, it is always the whole person, the
human being in the fullness of all his life
manifestations and powers, who cognizes.
Here is my text that I wanted to say:
Philosophy has an unusual status in Cognitive Science; it’s always included as one of the
component disciplines, but it’s role is not always clear. Philosophers are not typically involved in
experimental work or the modeling of data.
Other Possibilities:
-Science writing, explaining results from cognitive science in layperson’s terms
-More importantly, showing how results in cognitive science might bear on traditional
philosophical questions (about the mind, the self, nativism, empiricism...)
The philosophy of cognitive science covers all philosophical topics pertaining to the scientific
study of cognition. Its subtopics can be divided in four main ways. by...
The idea of the agnosticism is to deny the possibility in principle of knowing the objective
world, identifying its regularities and comprehending objective truth. In the history of
philosophy, the most famous agnostics were the English philosopher Hume (Юм) and the
German philosopher Kant, according to which objects, although they exist objectively, are
unknowable "things-in-themselves".
Its proponents do not deny the cognisability of the world, but either doubt the possibility
of cognition or, without doubting it, rest on a negative result (scepticism as "paralysis of
truth"). Namely, they understand the process of cognition as a "vain negation" rather
than a dialectical one (with the retention of the positive).
Heraclitus favors a "One Knowledge of Everything". Assuming that thinking is inherent in
all and that all people are given the power to know themselves and to reflect, he believes
that the human, subjective logos (i.e. cognition) has every possibility of being in
harmony with the objective logos.
The subject of cognition - the bearer of cognitive activity, the source of activity aimed at
the object. The object of cognition is what the cognitive activity of the subject of
cognition is directed at.
What is more important in cognition - the sensual or the rational?
There are two extremes in answering this question: empiricism and rationalism.
Empiricism is the view that the only source of all our knowledge is sensory experience,
that which we gain through sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste. Rationalism, on the
other hand, is the position according to which knowledge (reliable) can be obtained by
means of the mind alone, without any reliance on the senses.