Logic, Neuroscience and Phenomenology: In Cahoots?

Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen*

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Abstract

Cognitive sciences, including cognitive neurosciences, have provided important insights into the notions of awareness, implicit/explicit information processing in knowledge, perception, object identification and memory, as well as general information retrieval. Meanwhile, propositional-attitude logics have coped with awareness in terms of symbolic tools, but are lacking the pathways by which to relate the two fields. I argue that empirical findings concerning rare neural dysfunctions (blindsight, unilateral neglect, prosopagnosia, implicit memory) contribute to logical investigations. On the other hand, the early phase on cognitive science, the origins of which coincide with that of pragmaticist philosophy, shared roots with phenomenology. Accordingly, I will identify strands in that early period that have surfaced in logic, AI and computer science. In phenomenology, the significance of the division between implicit and explicit aspects of knowledge in understanding cognition was acknowledged very early on.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the First International Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics
EditorsGregor Büchel, Bertin Klein, Thomas Roth-Berghofer
PublisherCEUR-WS.org
Chapter4
Number of pages9
Publication statusPublished - 30 Sept 2004
EventFirst International Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics, WSPI 2004 - Cologne, Germany
Duration: 31 Mar 20041 Apr 2004
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-112/ (Link to conference proceedings)

Publication series

NameCEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume112
ISSN (Electronic)1613-0073

Workshop

WorkshopFirst International Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics, WSPI 2004
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityCologne
Period31/03/041/04/04
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