Lyon and Keijzer: The Human Stain
Lyon, Pamela and Keijzer, Fred (2007). "The Human Stain: Why cognitivism can't tell us what cognition is & what it does", in Wallace, B., Ross, A., Davies, J. and Anderson, T. (eds) The Mind, the Body and the World: Psychology after Cognitivism (2007) Imprint Academic
What is cognition? It is now common knowledge that, so far, no one has a ready answer. It is much less generally acknowledged that this is a matter of strong concern when it comes to the further development of the cognitive sciences. We discuss how cognitivism provided a strongly human orientation on cognition, which hindered the development of the standard piecemeal approach, which has been so extremely successful in the biological sciences more generally: first study simple cases and then move onward to more difficult ones.
