Tuesday, December 14, 2004

Logic, Neuroscience and Phenomenology: In Cahoots? 

Logic, Neuroscience and Phenomenology: In Cahoots?
Author: Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen   Date: 2004   Format: PDF
"Abstract. Cognitive sciences, including cognitive neurosciences, have provided important insights into the notionsof awareness, implicit/explicit information processing in knowledge, perception, object identification and memory, as well as general information retrieval. Meanwhile, propositional-attitude logics have tried to account for awareness in terms of symbolic tools, but have not found pathways in which to relate the two fields. It is argued that empirical findings concerning rare neural dysfunctions (blindsight, unilateral neglect, prosopagnosia, implicit memory) may contribute to these logical investigations. On the other hand, the early phase on cognitive science, the origins of which coincide with that of pragmatist philosophy, shared intimate roots with phenomenology. Accordingly, I will identify some strands in that early period that have surfaced in logic, AI and computer science. In phenomenology, the significance of the division between implicit and explicit aspects of knowledge in understanding cognition was acknowledged very early on."

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