Dialogue and Universalism

Volume 18, Issue 7/8, 2008

Epistemology—From Old Dilemmas to New Perspectives

Urszula Żegleń
Pages 103-114

Cognitive Science and Epistemology
Old Wine in a New Bottle?

I investigate the relationship between traditional philosophical epistemology and cognitive science. I start my considerations with the following questions: does the development of cognitive science require any revision of epistemology, akin to the revision required in some areas analytic philosophy after the emergence of quantum physics? Does cognitive science continue philosophical epistemology or is the complete break with traditional philosophical approaches?