As disciplines, cognitive science and metaphysics are generally conducted without reference to one another, though philosophers from Hume to Kant, and James, Bergson, Husserl, Kuhn, and Goodman have, in different ways, seemed to indicate a relationship. At Shalem’s upcoming Psycho-Ontology Conference on December 11-15, 2011, participants will raise questions that can be of interest to current philosophy and cognitive science: What role do perception, thought, and emotion play in helping to constitute the world we inhabit? And conversely, what can studying the fundamental features of reality reveal about the way human cognitive processes work? Read more
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