To Naturalize or Not to Naturalize? An Issue for Cognitive Science as Well as Anthropology

• Published in: Topics in cognitive science Vol. 4; no. 3; pp. 413 - 419
• Main Author: Stenning, Keith
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.07.2012
• Subjects: Anthropology; Cognition; Cognitive Science - methods; Culture; Defeasible logic; Humans; Interpretation; Knowledge; Knowledge-rich processes; Mental Processes; Reasoning

Several of Beller, Bender, and Medin’s (2012) issues are as relevant within cognitive science as between it and anthropology. Knowledge‐rich human mental processes impose hermeneutic tasks, both on subjects and researchers. Psychology's current philosophy of science is ill suited to analyzing t...