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Article: Darwinian functionalism: a cognitive science paradigm.
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- The Psychological Record
- Article date:
- March 22, 1994
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Anderson (1990) has argued that cognitive science is in need of a shift in emphasis away from modeling mental architecture in favor of an evolutionary or "adaptionist" perspective on human cognition. The implication is that cognitive psychology's neostructuralist research paradigm is giving way to a neofunctionalist one. It is also a signal that cognitivism has progressed through what Kuhn (1970) labeled normal science and is currently experiencing a crisis of nonconfidence. A shift in emphasis is necessary because cognitivism is in danger of degenerating into a kind of mentalism where unconstrained model building leads to an ever increasing need for new models to account ...
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