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Project: Cognitive Science Eco-Systems * Fall 07
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Affiliation: Eric J. Lindblom PhD
Starts: 9/1/07 Ends: Leaders: lindblom Keywords: harvard, lindblom, psychology, cognitive, systems Participants: 7 (view all) Description: lindblom, Dynamic Psychology *******************
Cognitive Science Systems ::: A THINK TANK ::: in ::: General System Theory ::: BIO ::: Post-Doctoral ****************** ALPHA COURSE ::: This course was developed by a Think Tank in a Course in Cognitive Science Systems at Harvard and a companion course at Rice University by similar names where students, instructors and staff have designed an ALPHA course (this one). ~Lindblom Cognitive Science Systems is interdisciplinary inquiry in biology, psychology, philosophy, sociology, history, political science, chemistry, physics, neuroscience, linguistics, anthropology and computer sciences to determine how beings function. Lindblom Reference: Luger, G. (1994). Cognitive science : the science of intelligent systems. San Diego: Academic Press. General Course Description: 1.) Theory Learning Goals: a.) Understanding theoretical perspectives in cognitive science systems thinking,and change beginning with theorietical orientations. The course is in exploration of complex systems thinking (including Symbolic Systems) in Cognitive Science and General Systems Theory. b.) Assessment and appraisal of scholarly research and writing in general, specific, relative and universal areas of psychology using General Systems Theory as an extended description for cognition. ************************** 2.) Pragmatic Learning Goals: a.) General application of theory in cognitive science and General systems. b.) Reflection on application of theory and design methodology in theoretical research and action research including practical investigation of ideas, norms, and change strategies in Cognitive Science and in General systems. A number of course support websites are offered. Support websites are storage of course content. Lindblom ************************** "The decisive advance of the systems view of life has been to abandon the Cartesian view of mind as a thing , and to realise that mind and consciousness are not things but processes. In biology, this novel concept of the mind was developed during the 1960s by Gregory Bateson , for use the term "mental process", and independently by Humberto Maturana, who focused on cognition, the process of knowing. During the past 25 years , the study of mind from its systemic perspective has blossomed into a rich interdisciplinary field, known as cognitive science, which transcends the traditional framework of biology, psychology and epistemology." Fritjof Capra (2002). The Hidden Connections. New York: Harper Collins. ******************* Main Course Support Website: http://cognitive.bravehost.com/ ****************** ...the term "cognition" refers to all processes by which the sensory input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered, and used. It is concerned with these processes even when they operate in the absence of relevant stimulation, as in images and hallucinations... Given such a sweeping definition, it is apparent that cognition is involved in everything a human being might possibly do; that every [1]psychological phenomenon is a cognitive phenomenon. But although cognitive psychology is concerned with all human activity rather than some fraction of it, the concern is from a particular point of view. Other viewpoints are equally legitimate and necessary. Dynamic psychology, which begins with motives rather than with sensory input, is a case in point. Instead of asking how a man's actions and experiences result from what he saw, remembered, or believed, the dynamic psychologist asks how they follow from the subject's goals, needs, or instincts." Ulrich Neisser Neisser, U (1967) Cognitive psychology Appleton-Century-Crofts New York ******************
The first step in the course is to look at traditional education: http://scholastic.bravehost.com/index.html http://scholasticism.bravehost.com/ http://reductionism.bravehost.com/ http://utilitarianism.bravehost.com http://progressivism.bravehost.com ******************* "George Berkeley was one of the three most famous eighteenth century British Empiricists (see LOCKE, JOHN and HUME, DAVID). He is best known for his motto, esse is percipi, to be is to be perceived. He was an idealist: everything that exists is either a mind or depends for its existence upon a mind. He was an immaterialist: matter does not exist." http://www.iep.utm.edu/b/berkeley.htm <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="harvard, lindblom, psychology, cognitive science, systems thinking">
******************** http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Cognitive+Science+Systems%22 ******************** Lindblom ******************** |
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