Pragmatism and Cognitive Science - Readings

Mark Johnson

Focal Texts (Cognitive Science)

  1. Lakoff, G. and Johnson, M. Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought, pp. 3-8, 16-36.
  2. Damasio, A. The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness, pp. 133-155, 168-179.
  3. Edelman, G. and Tononi, G. A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination, pp. 139-154.
  4. Churchland, P. "Outer Space and Inner Space: The New Epistemology." Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, 76, No. 2, 25-48.

Additional Sources from Pragmatism (familiarity with these texts would be useful)

  1. James, Wm. The Principles of Psychology, chapters 9, 10.
  2. Dewey, J. Experience and Nature, chapters 5, 7.
  3. Dewey, J. "Qualitative Thought."