Hugh Christopher Longuet–Higgins. 11 April 1923 — 27 March 2004

Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society ◽

10.1098/rsbm.2006.0012 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 52 ◽

pp. 149-166 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Richard L. Gregory ◽

John N. Murrell

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Science ◽

Scientific Understanding ◽

Scientific Advances

Hugh Christopher Longuet–Higgins, always known as Christopher, was an exceptional scholar and teacher who made important scientific advances in two quite different disciplines, chemistry and cognitive science. He was also a talented amateur musician, both as performer and composer, and was keen to advance the scientific understanding of this art.

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Reizende problemen in de wetenschap: orthodox christendom in de trein der traagheid?

Theologia Reformata ◽

10.21827/5be58d306760f ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 61 (4) ◽

pp. 350-360

Author(s):

G. Van den Brink

Keyword(s):

Evolutionary Theory ◽

Scientific Understanding ◽

Cutting Edge ◽

Orthodox Christianity ◽

Typical Pattern ◽

Orthodox Christian ◽

Shaping Power ◽

Liberal Christians ◽

Scientific Advances

This article (“Traveling Problems in Science: Is Orthodox Christianity Lagging Behind?”) examines the eventual reception of scientific advances by even the most orthodox Christian groups, after more liberal Christians have accommodated to such advances at earlier stages. That is, do orthodox Christians lag behind in their scientific understanding? Focusing on the late reception of heliocentrism, atomism and evolutionary theory among orthodox Christian groups, this article describes a typical pattern of gradual acceptance. In view of historic Christianity’s cutting-edge culture shaping power, this article suggests how Christians might address scientific advances as they develop rather than following them from a distance.

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Problems of Mind as Action

The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy ◽

10.5840/wcp20-paideia199835583 ◽

1998 ◽

pp. 73-83

Author(s):

Nikolaj Demjançuk

Keyword(s):

Theory Of Mind ◽

Cognitive Science ◽

Current Literature ◽

Large Body ◽

Scientific Understanding ◽

Philosophical Theory ◽

Physical Behavior ◽

Recent Advances ◽

The Mind

A large body of current literature details significant recent advances in our understanding of the mind. This boom has partly been stimulated by the explosive growth of cognitive science dedicated to advancing scientific understanding. This paper focuses on the nature of philosophical theory of mind, and seeks to find ways of talking about mind. Central to my argument is developing a description of mind as action. Concessive behaviorism depicts the mind as presented in complexes of actions and tendencies to act. If a philosophical theory of the mind emphasizes waving over silent cogitations and brain events, then it is behaviorist. This position defines the eliminative behaviorism. The most powerful and straightforward kind of non-eliminative behaviorism is analytic behaviorism arising from the view that all statements containing mental vocabulary can be analyzed into statements containing just the vocabulary of physical behavior. But perhaps a better way to think of beliefs is to understand only what each of them does, which is at the heart of the view known as functionalism. Therefore, special attention is given to considering behaviorist and functionalist theories.

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Numerical Symbols

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199642342.013.56 ◽

2014 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ian D. Holloway ◽

Daniel Ansari

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Science ◽

Scientific Understanding ◽

Human Knowledge ◽

Numerical Information ◽

Symbol Processing ◽

Human Culture ◽

Basic Competency

Human culture is founded upon an understanding of mathematics. Mathematics, in turn, is built upon a basic competency for abstracting and symbolizing numerical information. Although cognitive science has made great strides in the characterization of human knowledge, the understanding and use of numerical symbols remains largely unexplored. In this chapter we synthesize the current scientific understanding of numerical symbol processing using a synthesis of behavioral and neuroscientific findings. In particular, the chapter focuses on two interrelated topics: the processing of the semantics of numerical symbols and the processing of numerical symbols as audio-visual percepts. We conclude by proposing several avenues of inquiry about numerical symbols that can be traversed by future researchers.

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Language as a mental travel guide

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19003182 ◽

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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