INVESTIGADORES
VENTURELLI Alfonso Nicolas
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
The Configuration of the Object of Study in the Dynamical Approach to Cognitive Science
Autor/es:
VENTURELLI, NICOLÁS
Lugar:
Buenos Aires
Reunión:
Workshop; III Workshop on Philosophy and Cognitive Science; 2012
Institución organizadora:
Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico
Resumen:
I tackle the problem of the delimitation and configuration of the object of psychological study, attending particularly to the recent dynamical approach in the cognitive sciences (van Gelder & Port, 1995; Beer, 2000). I defend the idea of a considerable, discernibly Gibsonian, reconfiguration of the object of study which can be defined in terms of the formative principles of adaptive behavior, abstract principles derived from agent-environment interaction dynamics. To sustain this claim, I focus on the methodological restrictions defining a representative line of dynamicist work: the categorical perception model in computational neuroetology developed by Randall Beer (1996, 2003). By analyzing this model, I highlight the way a group of phenomena is successfully transformed into a scientific domain upon which certain problematic issues become treatable through the specific tools available in the context of current dynamical research.