Cognitive Science articles from January 1998

Cognitive Science archives from January 1998

Coherence as Constraint Satisfaction.
January 1, 1998... This paper provides a computational characterization of coherence that applies to a wide range of philosophical problems and psychological phenomena. Maximizing coherence is a matter of maximizing satisfaction of a set of positive and negative...

A Model Theory of Modal Reasoning.
January 1, 1998... This paper presents a new theory of modal reasoning, i.e. reasoning about what may or may not be the case, and what must or must not be the case. It postulates that individuals construct models of the premises in which they make explicit only...

Pragmatic Action.
January 1, 1998... This paper begins with a discussion of two features of the everyday task environment. First, the everyday task environment is designed, and an important part of the design is the provision of explicit information to guide the individual in the...

The Growth of Multidisciplinarity in the Cognitive Science Society.
January 1, 1998... In a case study of the growth of cognitive science, we analyzed the activities of the Cognitive Science Society with a particular emphasis on the multidisciplinary nature of the field. Analyses of departmental affiliations, training...

Efforts to Encourage Multidisciplinarity in the Cognitive Science Society.
January 1, 1998... Schunn, Crowley, and Okada (this issue) have documented a situation that naturally concerns all of us, the extent to which the journal Cognitive Science and the annual meetings of the Cognitive Science Society represent the multidisciplinary...