A filosofia na ciência cognitiva: a possibilidade de um projeto integrativo

Abstract

Cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of cognitive science are research programs that contribute to bridging the gap between the human mind and the biological nature of life. They conform an investigative work for a greater understanding of the nature of the human mind and how the brain participates in cognitive phenomena. We show how philosophy enters the scientific research of cognitive phenomena with a focus on the philosopher Andy Clark and his pluralistic approach between cognitivist and embodied views. To this end, we make a panoramic presentation of the history of cognitive science, concerning the diversity of methodological proposals that make it up. We show the neuroscientific bases of this area, which were part of the causes that led cognitive science to overcome cognitivism in its traditional version and to think of cognition in an embodied, situated, enactive and distributed way. We examine the view of Clark, a philosopher in the theoretical debates of cognitive science that demonstrates, in his pluralistic philosophical practice, how philosophers are part of the investigative area of cognitive science, now widely highlighted in academia and research in general. Finally, we argue for the need for a pluralistic and contextualized approach to the current moment in cognitive science.