Reposted by Meredith Martin
I DID IT!
Even with strep, I finished the first draft of my PhD after *eighteen years*. It is very drafty, and gets considerably worse near the end as my body temperature rose beyond its healthy limit, but I gosh darn DID IT.
Now I have 3 full months to revise it before the deadline.
Phew.
![EXISTING AND WOULD-BE ACCOUNTS OF
THE HISTORY OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE: AN
INTRODUCTION1
Csaba Pléh and Lilia Gurova
Science [...] is the source of a deep tension in the modern world. On the one hand, we have
been formed by the traditions of our culture. [...] On the other hand, modern empirical
sciences have reshaped our world and the way this whole world is interpreted. (Hans-
Georg Gadamer 1983: 209)
In this introductory chapter, the authors have three aims:
1) To summarize the accepted vision of the history of cognitive science, and somehow
characterize the different weights put on different historical and substantial parts of the
story, according to the sometimes diverging constituting disciplines.
2) To show that in (especially continental) European philosophy and psychology, there is
an alternative prehistory of cognitive science, along the lines introduced by Brook (this
volume).
3) Finally to indicate how some of the recent developments can be seen as replies to the
traditional challenges regarding the supposedly reductionist theories of the mind.
PDF: https://ia601405.us.archive.org/12/items/historyof-cog-sci/HistoryofCogSci.pdf](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:24ngrqljhck7hpvbgrg7a23k/bafkreicqxuaevtcxachunac755np6ybkluxbwim2peljfsd5pxefkevhcq)
