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Reconstructing the Cognitive World: The Next Step

@inproceedings{Wheeler2005ReconstructingTC,
  title={Reconstructing the Cognitive World: The Next Step},
  author={M. Wheeler},
  year={2005}
}

• M. Wheeler
• Published 2005
• Psychology

In Reconstructing the Cognitive World, Michael Wheeler argues that we should turn away from the generically Cartesian philosophical foundations of much contemporary cognitive science research and proposes instead a Heideggerian approach. Wheeler begins with an interpretation of Descartes. He defines Cartesian psychology as a conceptual framework of explanatory principles and shows how each of these principles is part of the deep assumptions of orthodox cognitive science (both classical and… Expand

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