Cognitive Semantics and Scientific Knowledge

Case studies in the cognitive science of science

András Kertész | University of Debrecen

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The book focuses on the question of how and to what extent cognitive semantic approaches can contribute to the new field of the cognitive science of science. The argumentation is based on a series of instructive case studies which are intended to test the prospects and limits of the metascientific application of both holistic and modular cognitive semantics. The case studies show that, while cognitive semantic research is able to solve problems which have traditionally been the domain of the philosophy of science, it also encounters serious limits. The prospects and the limits thus revealed suggest new research topics which in future can be tackled by cognitive semantic approaches to the cognitive science of science.

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 4] 2004. viii, 261 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/celcr.4

Table of Contents

Preface | p. xi

Introduction | p. 1

Part I. Preliminaries

1. On the cognitive turn | p. 13

2. Two metascientific extensions of cognitive semantics | p. 35

Part II. Prospects: Theoretical terms

3. The background | p. 55

4. Case study: A holistic approach to the problem of theoretical terms | p. 65

5. Case study: A modular approach to the problem of theoretical terms | p. 75

6. Conclusions | p. 93

Part III. Prospects: Sociological extensions

7. The background | p. 99

8. Case study: A sociological extension of the modular approach | p. 103

9. Case study: A sociological extension of the holistic approach | p. 123

10. Conclusions: Prospects | p. 133

Part IV. Limits

11. The background | p. 149

12. Case study: The sceptical dilemma of cognitive semantics | p. 157

13. Two case studies: Cognitive semantics and classic philosophical problems | p. 171

14. Conclusions: Limits | p. 193

15. Summary: The solution to the main problem | p. 205

16. Notes | p. 217

18. Appendix | p. 251

Index | p. 253

“[...] das Buch ist allen zu empfehlen, die verstehen wollen, wie man in der Wissenschaft kreativ, undogmatisch un reflektiert denkt.”

Kennosuke Yamada, in Sprachtheorie und germanische Linguistik, Vol. 16:1 (2006)

“ Cognitive Semantics and Scientific Knowledge is a fruitful, enlightening book. The findings it yields provide promising starting points for future linguistic and metascientific research alike. The book is a valuable contribution to the new field of the cognitive science of science.”

Zsuzsanna Schnell, University of Pécs, Hungary, in ICLA-review, February 2008

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