Robert Henman

 

In this article I analyse current efforts in cognitive neuroscience to explore the organic and cognitive processes involved in problem-solving. This analysis highlights a problem with assuming that cognitive processes can be wholly explained once one has explained organic processes. Reflection on scientific performance suggests how this problem can be evaded. This reflection on performance can also provide a paradigm for future neuroscientific research leading to a more detailed account of how brain locales and activities can be correlated with conscious cognitive acts.

 

philosophic reflection, cognition, reductionism, cognitive neuroscience research

 

 

Received on August 21, 2013
Accepted on November 08, 2013
Firstly published online on December 23, 2013