COG250Y1 Lecture Notes - Nominalism, Distributed Cognition, Medieval Philosophy
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Cognition: how information is processed, taken in, stored, manipulated, and used. Cognitive science: the interdisciplinary scientific study of the mind and its processes. Disciplines include: psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, artificial intelligence (computer science) A complete understanding of the mind cannot be attained by studying only a single level -> cognitive science creates a better understanding. Generic nominalism: posits that cognitive science is just a name used to collectively refer to sciences including the various disciplines. Interdisciplinary eclecticism: suggests that cognitive science is a forum for people from different disciplines to share insights and ideas, creating a theoretical landscape that bridges different disciplines. Religions: different religions sometimes get together to share insights, but they are largely untouched by each other; does not intend to carry out conversion or transformation to one another. Likely (am i apt to find him here?)
