Cognitive Ontology

Taxonomic Practices in the Mind-Brain Sciences

Muhammad Ali Khalidi (City University of New York)

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Cambridge University Press
12 September 2024

Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Philosophy of mind; Cognitivism, cognitive theory; Cognition & cognitive psychology; Philosophy of science

The search for the 'furniture of the mind' has acquired added impetus with the rise of new technologies to study the brain and identify its main structures and processes. Philosophers and scientists are increasingly concerned to understand the ways in which psychological functions relate to brain structures. Meanwhile, the taxonomic practices of cognitive scientists are coming under increased scrutiny, as researchers ask which of them identify the real kinds of cognition and which are mere vestiges of folk psychology. Muhammad Ali Khalidi present a naturalistic account of 'real kinds' to validate some central taxonomic categories in the cognitive domain, including concepts, episodic memory, innateness, domain specificity, and cognitive bias. He argues that cognitive kinds are often individuated relationally, with reference to the environment and etiology of the thinking subject, whereas neural kinds tend to be individuated intrinsically, resulting in crosscutting relationships among cognitive and neural categories.

By: Muhammad Ali Khalidi (City University of New York)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781009223621
ISBN 10: 1009223623
Pages: 295
Publication Date: 12 September 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

1. Cognitive Kinds; 2. Concepts; 3. Innateness; 4. Domain Specificity; 5. Episodic Memory; 6. Language-Thought Processes; 7. Cognitive Heuristics and Biases (co-written with Joshua Mugg); 8. Body Dysmorphic Disorder (co-written with Amy MacKinnon); 9. Epilogue.

Muhammad Ali Khalidi is Presidential Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His book, Natural Categories and Human Kinds, was published by Cambridge in 2013.

Reviews for Cognitive Ontology: Taxonomic Practices in the Mind-Brain Sciences

'Cognitive Ontology works out a detailed metaphysics of psychological kinds and demonstrates its fruitfulness through a series of lucidly argued empirical studies. Few works can match its combined scope and insight. It promises to substantially broaden the terrain on which debates over cognitive ontology are staged.' Daniel Weiskopf, Georgia State University