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Philosophy and Cognitive Science II

Western & Eastern Studies

  • Describes recent research at the crossroad between philosophy and cognitive science
  • Reports on the International Conference Philosophy and Cognitive Science (PCS2013), held in November 2013 at the Sun Yat-sen University, in Guangzhou, China
  • Includes contributions to the International Workshop on Visual Abduction or Abductive Vision, held in October/November 2013 at KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (SAPERE, volume 20)

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Table of contents (12 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. International Conference Philosophy and Cognitive Science (PCS2013)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Reframing the Problem of Cognitive Penetrability

      • Athanassios Raftopoulos
      Pages 3-20
    3. An Eco-Cognitive Model of Ignorance Immunization

      • Selene Arfini, Lorenzo Magnani
      Pages 59-75
    4. Towards a Caricature Model of Science

      • Woosuk Park
      Pages 77-93
    5. Violence and Abductive Cognition

      • Lorenzo Magnani
      Pages 95-113
  3. International Workshop Visual Abduction or Abductive Vision? KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115
    2. Understanding Visual Abduction

      • Lorenzo Magnani
      Pages 117-139
    3. From Visual Abduction to Abductive Vision

      • Woosuk Park
      Pages 141-153
    4. Abductive Inference in Late Vision

      • Athanassios Raftopoulos
      Pages 155-176
    5. Understanding Galileo’s Inquiries About the Law of Inertia

      • Jun-Young Oh, YooShin Kim, Chun-Hwey Kim, Byeong-Mee Min, Yeon-A Son
      Pages 193-207
    6. Biomorphism and Models in Design

      • Cameron Shelley
      Pages 209-221

About this book

The book shows how eastern and western perspectives and conceptions can be used to addresses recent topics laying at the crossroad between philosophy and cognitive science. It reports on new points of view and conceptions discussed during the International Conference on Philosophy and Cognitive Science (PCS2013), held at the Sun Yat-sen University, in Guangzhou, China, and the 2013 Workshop on Abductive Visual Cognition, which took place at KAIST, in Deajeon, South Korea.

The book emphasizes an ever-growing cultural exchange between academics and intellectuals coming from different fields. It juxtaposes research works investigating new facets on key issues between philosophy and cognitive science, such as the role of models and causal representations in science; the status of theoretical concepts and quantum principles; abductive cognition, vision, and visualization in science from an eco-cognitive perspective. Further topics are: ignorance immunization in reasoning; moral cognition, violence, and epistemology; and models and biomorphism. The book, which presents a unique and timely account of the current state-of-the art on various aspects in philosophy and cognitive science, is expected to inspire philosophers, cognitive scientists and social scientists, and to generate fruitful exchanges and collaboration among them.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy and Computational Philosophy Laboratory, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

    Lorenzo Magnani

  • Department of Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

    Ping Li

  • School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Woosuk Park

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eBook USD 129.00
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Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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