Cognitive contrarevolution?

Authors

  • Jaroslav Peregrin KFSV FF UHK & FLÚ AV ČR

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26806/fd.v4i1.76

Keywords:

mysl, behaviorismus, kognitivní revoluce

Abstract

Standard accounts of the modern history of the study of mind in the twentieth century tell us that while around the half of the century the study came to be dominated by inept behaviorism, the sixties witnessed the onslaught of the "cognitive revolution", which wiped out the dominance of behaviorism and opened the way for the truly unprejudiced and adequate study of mind. In this text I want to reconsider this account and challenge it: in particular, I want to point out that behaviorism was not in all respects so inept as it may suggest; and that the "cognitive revolution" did not mean merely breaking out of inadequate methodological fetters, but rather also an opening of space for what I will call the "magical theory of mind" and what I think belongs neither to science, nor to reasonable philosophy.

Author Biography

Jaroslav Peregrin, KFSV FF UHK & FLÚ AV ČR

Prof. RNDr. Jaroslav Peregrin, CSc., vystudoval matematiku, před rokem 1989 pracoval jako programátor. Působí ve Filosofickém ústavu Akademie věd ČR a přednáší na Filozofické fakultě Univerzity Hradec Králové a Filozofické fakultě UK v Praze. Kromě logiky se zabývá hlavně filozofií jazyka, sémantikou a analytickou filozofií. Do češtiny přeložil několik prací předních analytických filozofů. Kromě řady studií publikovaných v odborných časopisech napsal mj. knihy Úvod do analytické filosofie (1992), Doing Worlds with Words (1995), Meaning and Structure (2001), Filosofie a jazyk (2003), Kapitoly z analytické filosofie (2005), Filozofie pro normální lidi (2008).

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Published

2012-06-29

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2012)

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