Overcoming Computationalism in Cognitive Science

Maria Pietronilla Penna
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Maria Pietronilla Penna: Università di Cagliari Via Is Mirrionis

A chapter in Systemics of Emergence: Research and Development, 2006, pp 341-353 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This paper analyzes the role of computationalism in Cognitive Science in order to highligth its shortcomings. The main thesis is that, rather than eliminating computationalism from Cognitive Science, we would better reconsider the distinction between computable and uncomputable. Whereas such a distinction is useful to stress the intrinsic limitations of a mechanistic view of cognitive processing, it is useless when dealing with the main problem of post-computational Cognitive Science, namely the one of understanding the emergence of cognitive abilities from biological stuff.

Keywords: computazionalism; decomposition method; cognitive science; emergence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1007/0-387-28898-8_24

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