Cognitive Adaptation

A Pragmatist Perspective

AvJay Schulkin

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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Cognitive Adaptation: A Pragmatist Perspective argues that there is a fundamental link between cognitive/neural systems and evolution that underlies human activity. One important result is that the line between nature and culture and scientific and humanistic inquiry is quite permeable - the two are fairly continuous with each other. Two concepts figure importantly in our human ascent: agency and animacy. The first is the recognition of another person as having beliefs, desires, and a sense of experience. The second term is the recognition of an object as alive, a piece of biology. Both reflect a predilection in our cognitive architecture that is fundamental to an evolving, but fragile, sense of humanity. The book further argues for a regulative norm of self-corrective inquiry, an appreciation of the hypothetical nature of all knowledge. Schulkin's perspective is rooted in contemporary behavioral and cognitive neuroscience.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-09-22
Mått:152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt:450 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:210
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521517911

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Kognitiv psykologi inom Psykologi och pedagogik

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Jay Schulkin is Research Professor for the Departments of Physiology and Biophysics and Neuroscience at Georgetown University. He is author of numerous texts, including The Neuroendocrine Regulation of Behavior, Roots of Social Sensibility and Neural Function, Bodily Sensibility: Intelligent Action and Allostasis, Homeostasis, and the Costs of Physiological Adaptation.

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“Professor Jay Schulkin is in a rare class of writers, as at home in the fields of philosophy of mind and cognitive science as he is in the fields of neuroimaging and neuroscience. Here he has produced a wide ranging book that reveals his endless appetite for asking deep and searching questions about the evolution of the mind, and that will stimulate the reader to want to read more about how the mind works.” —Simon Baron-Cohen, Director, Autism Research Centre, Cambridge University

Innehållsförteckning

1. Cognitive adaptation: objects and inquiry; 2. The human situation: uncertainty and adaptation; 3. Time and memory: historical sensibilities; 4. Education: learning from others, neurogenesis; 5. Cognitive and neurobiological basis of religious inquiry.