After Cognitivism: A Reassessment of Cognitive Science and Philosophy

By Karl Leidlmair

Book Overview

1. The Pragmatic Dimension: a Reassessment of Scientific Theories. 1.1. Towards a Technology- and Action-oriented Methodology of Constructive Realism, H. Lenk. 1.2. The Three Enligthenments, H. Putnam. 2. Artificial Intelligence and the Embodiment of the Mind. 2.1. Why Heidggerian AI Failed and how Fixing it would Require making it more Heideggerian, H. Dreyfus. 2.2. The New Orthodoxy: Humans, Animals, Heidegger and Dreyfus, H. Collins. 2.3. The Key to the Chinese Room, S. Gallagher. 3. Socialization in the Internet between Dissolution and Extension of the Human Self. 3.1. The Play of Imagination: Extending the Literary Mind, D. Thomas, J.S. Brown. 3.2. Reading the World Upside-Down. How to Deal with Frozen Knowledge, K. Leidlmair. 3.3. On the significance of the 'lower' senses: Touch, Smell and Taste, B. Becker. 4. New Research Strategies in Psychology and Psychotherapy. 4.1. We can think with the implicit, as well as with fully-formed concepts, E. Gendlin. 4.2. Embodied Knowledge in Design, P. Sachse, M. Furtner. 4.3. The Second Cognitive Revolution, R. Harr?. 5. Ethical and Economic aspects. 5.1. The illusion of free will and its acceptance, G. Trautteur. 5.2. Three Concepts of Liberty, S. Shanker. 5.3. Premises and Promises of Economic Theory Formation, F. H?rmann.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402099916
• ISBN13: 9781402099915
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"