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(2002) In the scope of logic, methodology and philosophy of science II, Dordrecht, Springer.
Patterns of interaction among philosophers of science and cognitive scientists
Ronald N. Giere
pp. 667-685
I would like to begin with a few words about the impact of the cognitive sciences on philosophy as a whole, for I think that this impact will turn out to be far greater than that on the philosophy of science. Fifty years ago, at the middle of the 20th C, philosophy departments still taught courses in perception and memory. Those subjects have since been taken over, first by psychology, and now by the cognitive sciences more generally. I think that by the middle of the 21st C the same thing will have happened to the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind, currently prominent fields in many departments of philosophy. The same fate awaits epistemology. Metaphysics has been and continues to be taken over by science in general, which is now our main authority on what there is. Logic has long been taken over by mathematics. Philosophy of science will merge into science studies. That will leave to philosophy proper only the history of philosophy and, hopefully, useful discussion of issues of morality and of social and political policy, topics that cannot be fully determined by any scientific discoveries.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-0475-5_17
Full citation:
Giere, R. N. (2002)., Patterns of interaction among philosophers of science and cognitive scientists, in P. Grdenfors, P. Gärdenfors, J. Woleński & K. Kijania-Placek (eds.), In the scope of logic, methodology and philosophy of science II, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 667-685.
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