Cognitive Variation

The Philosophical Landscape

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7956929
AutoresZina B Ward (0000-0003-0160-6656, Florida State University, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume17
Fascículo10
Data de publicação2022-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPhilosophy Compass (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/phc3.12882
OpenAlexW4292834532
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas122

We do not all make choices, reason, interpret our experience, or respond to our environment in the same way. A recent surge of scientific interest has thrust these individual differences into the spotlight: researchers in cognitive psychology and neuroscience are now devoting increasing attention to cognitive variation. The philosophical dimensions of this research, however, have yet to be systematically explored. Here I make an initial foray by considering how cognitive variation is characterized . I present a central dilemma facing descriptions of individual differences, discuss several distinctions used to categorize variation, and show that these distinctions require further elaboration. Finally, by canvassing several philosophical topics for which the characterization of cognitive variation may have significant implications, I argue that philosophers should take note of how and why our minds differ

Categorization · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Dilemma · Epistemology · Sociology · Computer Science · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment