The Cognitive Science of Science: Explanation, Discovery, and Conceptual Change, by Paul Thagard. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2012. xii + 376 pp. ISBN 978-080-775-251-7.

2013 ◽  
Vol 97 (4) ◽  
pp. 637-639
Author(s):  
GALE M. SINATRA ◽  
DOUG LOMBARDI
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Change ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Science Of Science ◽  
Science Explanation

Graceful degradation and conceptual development

2011 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-134
Author(s):  
Frank Keil
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Change ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Real World ◽  
Conceptual Development ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
Graceful Degradation

AbstractIn this book, Carey gives cognitive science a detailed account of the origins of concepts and an explanation of how origins stories are essential to understanding what concepts are and how we use them. At the same time, this book's details help highlight the challenge of explaining how conceptual change works with real-world concepts that often have heavily degraded internal content.

scholarly journals Paul Thagard, The Cognitive Science of Science, MIT Press, Cambridge (MA)/Londres, 2012, 365 p.

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 238
Author(s):  
Jean-Frédéric de Pasquale ◽  
Pierre Poirier
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Science Of Science

Language as a mental travel guide

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles P. Davis ◽  
Gerry T. M. Altmann ◽  
Eiling Yee
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Travel Guide

Abstract Gilead et al.'s approach to human cognition places abstraction and prediction at the heart of “mental travel” under a “representational diversity” perspective that embraces foundational concepts in cognitive science. But, it gives insufficient credit to the possibility that the process of abstraction produces a gradient, and underestimates the importance of a highly influential domain in predictive cognition: language, and related, the emergence of experientially based structure through time.

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