Cognitive science - future challenges of an interdisciplinary field

Eddy J. Davelaar

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00007

Abstract

OPINION article Front. Psychol., 29 March 2010Sec. Cognitive Science Volume 1 - 2010 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00007

Highlights

Cognitive Science has a long tradition of being interdisciplinary, not so much driven by the otherwise noble spirit of facilitating cross-talk, but by the very necessity to integrate multiple perspectives when tackling one of life’s most complex questions: what is the mind and how does it work? As a global endeavour, Cognitive Science was shaped by many other disciplines, such as philosophy, biology, mathematics, physics, psychology, anthropology, linguistics, and sociology
The history of Cognitive Science is replete with examples of how collaborations across the disciplinary divide have pushed the field forward to unforeseen heights and of how new subfields emerged from such interactions
Cognitive Science is a discipline with numerous successes, from understanding the limits of the human mind to its adaptive abilities in novel environments

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Introduction

Cognitive Science is a discipline with numerous successes, from understanding the limits of the human mind to its adaptive abilities in novel environments. Cognitive Science has a long tradition of being interdisciplinary, not so much driven by the otherwise noble spirit of facilitating cross-talk, but by the very necessity to integrate multiple perspectives when tackling one of life’s most complex questions: what is the mind and how does it work? I once read in an announcement for an event that the aim of Cognitive Science is to reverse-engineer human intelligence.

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