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Philosophical issues pervade cognitive science. Among those studied in our department are: the nature of mental representations and their neural realization; the structure of the computational architecture supporting cognition (including linguistic theories such as Optimality Theory); the pervasive methodological challenges of arguing from behavioral and neural data to characterization of mental structures. The research of this group is unusual in that a strong empirical and computational base is combined with a serious commitment to fully characterizing the assumptions and implications of cognitive theory. Developing argumentation skills is a central goal of the training program. |
