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Is Cognitive Science Full of Crap?

Posted on May 24, 2012 by David Dobbs · 6 Comments

  [Note 5/24/12: I’m away from the desk this week. This post originally ran on February 28, 2011, and stirred a lot of online discussion; still fully current, and I suspect will be so for a while.] Is cognitive science full of crap? A biophyics researcher recently asked this of a cognitive science researcher. The […]

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Is Cognitive Science Full of Crap?

Posted on February 28, 2011 by David Dobbs · Leave a comment

 Is cognitive science full of crap? A biophyics researcher recently asked this of a cognitive science researcher. The latter answered with spirit. My own answer is that of course cog sci is full of crap — except when it’s not. Which makes it like most science, only more so. It started when Cambridge University memory […]

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