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The Cognitive Paradigm

Cognitive Science, a Newly Explored Approach to the Study of Cognition Applied in an Analysis of Science and Scientific Knowledge

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  • © 1982

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Authors:
  1. Marc Mey

    1. Dept. of Logic and Epistemology, University of Ghent, Belgium

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Part of the book series: Sociology of the Sciences - Monographs (SOSM, volume 1)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Introduction to the Cognitive View

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Development of the Cognitive View

      • Marc De Mey
      Pages 3-18

    3. World Views and Models

      • Marc De Mey
      Pages 19-37

    4. Positivism as a Monadic View

      • Marc De Mey
      Pages 38-49

    5. Logical Positivism: A Structural View

      • Marc De Mey
      Pages 50-62

    6. Contexts of Science: Sciences of Science

      • Marc De Mey
      Pages 63-81

    7. The Cognitive View on Science: Paradigms

      • Marc De Mey
      Pages 82-107

  3. The Social Structure of Science

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
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    2. Bibliometrics and the Structure of Science

      • Marc De Mey
      Pages 111-131

    3. Informal Groups and the Origin of Networks

      • Marc De Mey
      Pages 132-147

    4. The Life Cycle of Scientific Specialties

      • Marc De Mey
      Pages 148-170

  4. Cognitive Structure and Dynamics of Science

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
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    2. Paradigms and the Psychology of Attention and Perception

      • Marc De Mey
      Pages 173-201

    3. Puzzle-solving and Reorganization of World Views

      • Marc De Mey
      Pages 202-226

    4. Conservation and the Dynamics of Conceptual Systems

      • Marc De Mey
      Pages 227-251

  5. Epilogue

    1. Epilogue

      • Marc De Mey
      Pages 252-259

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 260-314
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About this book

The growing importance of the sciences in industrialised societies has been acknowledged by the increasing number of studies concerned with their development, change and control. In the past 20 or so years there has been a considerable growth in teaching and research programmes dealing with science and technology policy, science and society, sociology and history of science and similar areas which has resulted in much new material about the production and validation of scientific knowledge. In addition to the quanti­ tative growth of this literature, there has also been a substantial shift in the problems addressed and approaches adopted. In particular, the substantive content of scientific knowledge has become the focus of many historical and sociological studies which seek to understand how knowledges develop and change in different social circumstances. Instead of taking the privileged epistemological status of scientific knowledge for granted, recent approaches have emphasised the socially contingent nature of knowledge production and validation and the pluralistic nature of the sciences. Parallel to these develop­ ments, there has been a shift in the treatment of science by the state, business and public pressure groups. Increasingly they have sought to control the direction of research, and thus the content of knowledge, directly rather than simply applying existing knowledge. Science has become amenable to social control and influence. Its sacred status has declined and it is increasingly viewed as a socially constituted phenomenon which can be studied in a similar manner to other cultural products.

Reviews

`He (De Mey) has brought together an unusually wide range of material, and suggested some interesting lines of thought, about what should be an important application of cognitive science: The understanding of science itself.'
Cognition and Brain Theory
`...a valuable contribution to the literature of cognitive science, computer science, information science, sciences of science, philosophy and the social sciences generally.'
Scientometrics
`Every serious student of the social phenomenon of science is (therefore) advised to read this book with the closest attention.'
4 S Review

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of Logic and Epistemology, University of Ghent, Belgium

    Marc Mey

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Cognitive Paradigm

  • Book Subtitle: Cognitive Science, a Newly Explored Approach to the Study of Cognition Applied in an Analysis of Science and Scientific Knowledge

  • Authors: Marc Mey

  • Series Title: Sociology of the Sciences - Monographs

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7956-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1982

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1600-2Published: 30 June 1984

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-7956-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 314

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History, general

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