What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Cognition?

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_16362
dc.title	What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Cognition?. Human, Cybernetic, and Phylogenetic Conceptual Schemes
dc.contributor.author	Figdor Carrie
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/the-journal-for-the-philosophy-of-language-mind-an/2023/2/what-are-we-talking-about-when-we-talk-about-cogni/
dc.description.abstract	In this paper I will outline three conceptual schemes for thinking about cognition. One is the anthropocentric scheme that dominated our thinking for thousands of years: human cognition. Another is the approach founded in classical cognitive science and artificial intelligence: cybernetic cognition. The third is the framework of evolutionary biology that encompasses all traits of evolved organisms: phylogenetic cognition. I will explain all three and sketch their current relationships. Each scheme forms the conceptual ground of a valid research programme, but how these programmes and schemes will end up in relation to each other is an open question.
dc.relation.ispartof	JoLMA
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 4 \| Issue 2 \| December 2023
dc.issued	2024-02-07
dc.dateAccepted	2023-12-26
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-12-05
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2723-9640
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/Jolma/2723-9640/2023/02/001
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Basal cognition
dc.subject	Cognition
dc.subject	Cognitive ontology
dc.subject	Cybernetics
dc.subject	Evolution of cognition

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Human, Cybernetic, and Phylogenetic Conceptual Schemes

Carrie Figdor The University of Iowa, USA

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In this paper I will outline three conceptual schemes for thinking about cognition. One is the anthropocentric scheme that dominated our thinking for thousands of years: human cognition. Another is the approach founded in classical cognitive science and artificial intelligence: cybernetic cognition. The third is the framework of evolutionary biology that encompasses all traits of evolved organisms: phylogenetic cognition. I will explain all three and sketch their current relationships. Each scheme forms the conceptual ground of a valid research programme, but how these programmes and schemes will end up in relation to each other is an open question.

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Feb. 7, 2024

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Dec. 26, 2023

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Dec. 5, 2023

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Keywords: Basal cognition • Cognition • Cybernetics • Cognitive ontology • Evolution of cognition

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