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What Should Cognitive Science Look Like? Neither a Tree Nor Physics

Author(s) -

Schunn Christian D.

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

topics in cognitive science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.191

H-Index - 56

eISSN - 1756-8765

pISSN - 1756-8757

DOI - 10.1111/tops.12467

Subject(s) - cognition , rational analysis , cognitive science , diversity (politics) , sign (mathematics) , resource (disambiguation) , psychology , adaptation (eye) , epistemology , data science , sociology , cognitive psychology , computer science , mathematics , philosophy , mathematical analysis , computer network , neuroscience , anthropology

While pointing out important features of cognitive science, Núñez et al. (2019) also argue prematurely for the end of cognitive science. I discuss problematic analytic features in the application of hierarchical cluster analysis to journal citation data. On the conceptual side, I argue that the research programs framework of Lakatos may not be so wisely applied to cognitive science. Further, the diversity of structure in cognitive science departments may represent a rational, strategic adaptation by an interdisciplinary department to cognitive and other resource challenges rather than the sign of low progress on a discipline.

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