An essay on the evolution of cognition: constructing a theoretical conceptual framework [0.03%]
认知演化论纲——一个理论建构框架
Alan M Smith
Alan M Smith
In this essay we provide an interdisciplinary approach to the problem of the evolution of human cognition and suggest the theoretical framework of genetic system theory (GST) for organizing the relevant content of several disciplines. This ...
Katherine Nelson
Katherine Nelson
Memory development is described in terms of a bio-social-cultural theory of human cognition. The development from a private unshareable system of basic memory in infancy and very early childhood is framed within an experiential perspective ...
Michael Cole
Michael Cole
This purpose of this paper is to defend the contention that human culture is constitutive of human psychological processes. Several kinds of evidence are presented in support of this proposition: phenomena associated with the stabilization ...
Mario Bunge
Mario Bunge
The introduction, an imaginary dialogue between a philosopher and a scientist, is followed by a brief discussion of the interactions between science, philosophy, and religion. Next comes an analysis of the three most popular philosophies of...
The slow process: a hypothetical cognitive adaptation for distributed cognitive networks [0.03%]
缓慢的过程：分布式认知网络的假想认知适应
Merlin Donald
Merlin Donald
Human cognitive evolution is characterized by two special features that are truly novel in the primate line. The first is the emergence of "mindsharing" cultures that perform cooperative cognitive work, and serve as distributed cognitive ne...
James Woodward,John Allman
James Woodward
Philosophers use the phrase "moral intuition" to describe the appearance in consciousness of moral judgments or assessments without any awareness of having gone through a conscious reasoning process that produces this assessment. This paper...
John Bickle
John Bickle
Social cognition appears to present phenomena that "ruthlessly reductive" molecular and cellular neuroscience cannot fruitfully investigate or explain. This is because the causes of such phenomena are distal and external not only to the mol...
The science of research: the principles underlying the discovery of cognitive and other biological mechanisms [0.03%]
研究的科学：认知及其他生物学机制发现的基本原理
Alcino J Silva
Alcino J Silva
Studies of cognitive function include a wide spectrum of disciplines, with very diverse theoretical and practical frameworks. For example, in Behavioral Neuroscience cognitive mechanisms are mostly inferred from loss of function (lesion) ex...
Dualism revisited [0.03%]
论二元论
John R Searle
John R Searle
The problem of consciousness should eventually receive a scientific solution, but there are a number of scientific and philosophical obstacles along the way. I offer solutions to the philosophical problems and proposals for approaching the ...
Being oneself [0.03%]
做自己
Marc Jeannerod
Marc Jeannerod
This paper discusses the difference between self-identification and the self/other differentiation. Self-identification relies on the congruence of self-generated movements and their expected consequences, i.e., on the temporal correlation ...