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As is well known, cognitive science is far from being a well defined discipline with an own methodology (as, for instance, physics or biology). A multitude of disciplines is involved in this fuzzy research program which has its roots in the early fifties — the development of cybernetics has brought about an interdisciplinary discourse concerning the questions of human mind, thinking, a mechanistic view of cognition, etc. (F.Vareia [VARE 90]). Cognitive science has developed in the context of computer science, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cognitive psychology. As will be shown its traditional form is dominated by the concepts and ideas of computer science. Normally the following disciplines are assumed to take part in the “interdisciplinary” discourse of traditional cognitive science (Osherson et al. [OSHE 90], Posner [POSN 89], Stillings et al. [STIL 87], Winograd & Flores [WINO 86], Peschl [PESC 90], etc.).
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Peschl, M.F. (1991). Interdisciplinarity and Self-Organization in Computational Neuroepistemology. In: Jackson, M.C., Mansell, G.J., Flood, R.L., Blackham, R.B., Probert, S.V.E. (eds) Systems Thinking in Europe. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3748-9_23
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