Mark of the Cognitive
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Some philosophers search for the mark of the cognitive: a set of individually necessary and jointly su cient conditions identifying all and only the instances of cognition. They claim the mark is necessary to answer di cult questions... more
The present century has seen renewed interest in characterizing cognition, the object of inquiry of the cognitive sciences. In this paper, I describe the problem of cognition—the absence of a positive characterization of cognition despite... more
Die Vertreter der These der erweiterten Kognition behaupten, dass kognitive Prozesse nicht nur in zentralen Nervensystemen kognitiver Wesen stattfinden, sondern sich in die Umwelt dieser Wesen hinein erstrecken (Abschnitt 1). Adams und... more
Die klassische Auffassung von Kognition ist, dass in den Gehirnen bestimmter Tiere kognitive Prozesse stattfinden. Diese Ansicht ist jedoch häufig bezweifelt worden. So gibt es Philosophen und Kognitionswissenschaftler, die behaupten,... more
Cognitive science is unusual in that cognitive scientists have dramatic disagreements about the extension of their object of study, cognition. This paper defends a novel analysis of the scientific concept of cognition: that cognition is... more
This paper criticizes the role of intuition-based ascriptions of cognition that are closely related to the ascription of mind. This practice hinders the explication of a clear and stable target domain for the cognitive sciences. To move... more