Tag Archive: Cognitive science

Between IS and OUGHT

When human beings investigate their own nature, they ask two seemingly different questions: Who are we? Who should we be? The first is the province of psychology, cognitive science and increasingly, biology.  The second is the province of ethics, arts and philosophy. One of the most interesting developments in modern scholarship is how the two…

What is the role of Indian Philosophy in the Cognitive Sciences?

Since I am going to the Mind and Life Summer Research Institute, I thought I should share an essay I wrote a while ago. Q: What is the role of Indian Philosophy in the Cognitive Sciences? The stated goal of our enterprise is to create an intellectual milieu where Indian philosophical ideas and theories play…