CONCEPTS Where Cognitive Science Went Wrong
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loginActually, I’m a little worried about the subtitle. There is already a bigrevisionist literature about what’s wrong with cognitive science, devoted tothrowing out, along with the baby: the bath, the bath towel, the bathtub,the bathroom, many innocent bystanders, and large sections of LowerManhattan. The diagnoses that these books offer differ quite a lot amongthemselves, and there’s a real worry that the patient may die of over-prescription. What’s wrong with cognitive science is that, strictly speaking,there aren’t any mental states at all. Or, strictly speaking, there aren’t anymental states except the conscious ones. Or, strictly speaking, inten-tionality is in the eye of the beholder. Or of the interpreter. Or of thetranslator. Or it’s just a stance. Or it’s a coarse grid over a neural network.Or whatever.
