Date: April 17st (Wednesday), 10:00 AM (Warsaw time)
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Methodological Pluralism in Cognition Research
Abstract
Methodological individualism has long underpinned the study of cognition, but some frameworks, such as enactivism and ecological psychology, treat cognition as involving relationships between agent and environment. Rather than this leading to a wider adoption of pluralism in studying cognition, ongoing arguments about the methodological and ontological dominance of specific frameworks pervade the literature. I suggest that adopting methodological pluralism, complemented by ontological pluralism, is more productive for understanding cognition. This is illustrated specifically through a discussion of agency. I borrow examples of individual, interactive, and collective dynamics coming together in the study of active matter physics to show how integrating multiple resources can contribute to a richer, more complete understanding of cognition.
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This talk is a part of the Traincrease Lecture Series (D4.2).
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952324.
