| FB-52344-06 | Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Steven Horst | Cognitive Pluralism: Unities and Disunities of Knowledge and the Mind | 12/1/2006 - 8/31/2007 | $40,000.00 | Steven | | Horst | | | | Wesleyan University | Middletown | CT | 06459-3208 | USA | 2005 | Philosophy, General | Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Research Programs | 40000 | 0 | 40000 | 0 |
This project explores issues of how knowledge and the mind are unified and disunified. It critiques the prevalent philosophical tradition of holding (a) that the mind is best viewed as a single, indivisible, well-unified entity, and (b) that all knowledge can be united, whether in the robust form of a reduction of all facts to those of basic physics, or in the more modest form of a comprehensive yet consistent world view or frame of reference. An alternative view, Cognitive Pluralism, will be developed and defended, drawing upon convergent evidence from several sciences of cognition: neuroscience, cognitive and developmental psychology, artificial intelligence, comparative ethology and evolutionary psychology. |