Volume 58 (2003), 1

There are two different approaches to mind: cognitivist and sociocultural. The author attempts at outlining the latter, while indicating that both approaches are complementary rather than excluding each other. Another difference the author makes in his paper is the difference between brain and mind. Based on the sociocultural approach, human mind is the… Read more

The paper focuses on exploring sources and aims of evolutionary psychology, on how its representatives devlope their own approaches in opposition to the Standard social science model. Evolutionary psychology is in favor of functionally specialized and/or domain-specific mechanisms in the architecture of the human mind as it evolved in the course of evolution. Such… Read more

The paperś argumentation is for the conception of mind as an open, although internally structured system. Mind, however, is not just an actualization of dispositions, but also the accommodation and cultivation of the latter in the process of a continuous interaction with the intelligible structures of the other minds as well as with the products of the historical… Read more

The purpose of the paper is to present basic principles of connectionism and its position within contemporary cognitive science. Connectionist paradigm postulates thinking as a parallel processing of non-structured information by simple calculations performed by neurons that are deeply mutually interconnected. The basic numerical tools of connectionism are… Read more

The paper examines new innovative ideas coming from contemporary empirical researches of perception, language and mind in cognitive and evolutionary psychology. From these researches it follows, that our minds are equipped with certain innate physical, language and psychological principles. The respective disciplines are sometimes referred to as intuitive physics… Read more

In the midst of the 1980 Daniel Dennett published a series of papers on the problematic of the Self. The resolution offered by Dennett is rather unconventional in philosophy and it might appear as contradicting several contemporary theoretical as well as experimental works in this field. The latter appeal namely to considerably different sources of the development… Read more

According to the author, the dichotomy between the primordialist and the instrumentalist approach to the problem od ethnicity is similar to the classical philosophical dichotomy of rationalism versus empiricism. Kantś solution - differentiating between the form and the content of ideas - might be animating for us in overcoming the dichotomy between primordialism… Read more