The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (OECS) is a free, online collection of multidisciplinary peer-reviewed articles on various topics in cognitive science.
Officially launched last August by MIT Press, the OECS is a successor to the MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. It currently has around 80 articles, with more to come, on topics such as:
- Social Epistemology by Mandi Astola and Mark Alfano
- The Mind-Body Problem by Tim Crane
- Bodily Sensations by Frédérique de Vignemont
- Personal/Subpersonal Distinction by Zoe Drayson
- Conceptual Analysis by Frank Jackson
- Natural Kinds by Muhammad Ali Khalidi
- Cognitive Ontology by Colin Klein
- Free Will by Neil Levy
- Experimental Philosophy by Edouard Machery
- Metacognition by Joëlle Proust
…to pick just ten.
The editors of OECS are Michael C. Frank of Stanford University and Asifa Majid of the University of Oxford.
You can check it out here.
thanks for sharing this, more OA and fewer paywalls is a good way to court the voting public in these tragic times…
I searched the encyclopedia for “Cognitive Science” but didn’t find an article explaining how Cognitive Science is a coherent discipline.
Is philosophy a coherent discipline? Can you share an article explaining how it is?
FWIW when asked to justify philosophy (I’m not a professional philosopher) I argue (or point out) that philosophy handles problems which haven’t matured into disciplines.
For example, when I was an undergraduate, linguistics was half a bookshelf in the bookshop. Now it’s a section.
When Aristotle wrote, just about everything was up for grabs…
Anyway, philosophy teaches that answering a question with a question isn’t an answer.
But, yeah, one of the – right and proper – things philosophy does is to problamatise such issues..
https://dailynous.com/2023/09/29/whats-the-point-of-philosophy-as-an-academic-discipline-building-a-poll/