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Author(s) -
Gray Wayne 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.12471
Subject(s) - subtitle , editorial board , psychology , publication , cognition , library science , media studies , sociology , history , political science , computer science , law , philosophy , linguistics , neuroscience
Colleagues, friends, and readers. I read/heard the news about the N u~ nez paper on the morning of June 14th 2019. It was there in my emails, all over the CogSci twitter feeds, and in the considerable consternation expressed by many members of the Cognitive Science Society Governing Board (GB). I wondered at the time, why the gnashing of teeth? After all, have not the words, “A Multidisciplinary Journal” been the subtitle of our flagship journal, “Cognitive Science,” since its founding? Why would we adopt that title and why would we keep it on the cover page of our journal all of these years if we did not believe this description helped to clarify our intentions? And why would someone accuse us of failure for being something that, each month with each issue of the Cognitive Science journal, we boldly declare that we are? In any case, occasional self-examinations and self-reassessments are as important to professional societies as they are to individuals. With that goal in mind, this topic was born with a ruthless deadline; namely, to recruit a small number of short papers written by those in our field who found some aspect of the challenge posed by N u~nez et al. (2019) to be engaging, and to write, edit, and publish those short papers in the next (i.e., the October 2019) issue of this journal.