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Paul Thagard on cognition, consciousness, misinformation, balance

Thing in itself

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What's Next for Cognitive Science?

Cognitive science as a general field is doing really well, even though it looks like some of the venues have been taken over just by experiment based cognitive psychology. Even basic areas like memory, their dances there, and a problem solving decision making, all these, all the standard areas of cognitive science are making progress. Language is obviously why has lots of open questions. And so it's great that there are different people in different fields working on these. But theoretically, the theoretical level cognitive science is flourishing because there areLots of interactions among the fields, including philosophy and psychology and neuroscience and linguistics and anthropology.

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