{"pk":33045,"title":"Cognitive Science and Two Images of the Person","subtitle":null,"abstract":"A certain indecisiveness and lack of common purpose seems to \nbe a feature of cognitive science at the moment. W e are in this \npaper that it can be explained in part by cognitive science's lack of \nsuccess so far in connecting its scientific, computational image \n(better, images) of cognition to what we experience of people in \nordinary life: in society, law, literature, etc. Following Sellars \n(1963), we call these two ways of representing cognizers the \nscientific image and the manifest image. The scientific image \nsees persons, and also artificial cognitive systems, as vast assem?blages of postulated units of some kind. In the manifest image by \ncontrast, persons are seen as unified centre of representation, \ndeliberation and action, able to reach focused, unified decisions \nand take focused, unified actions. Since the manifest image is the \nmurkier of the two, more of the paper is devoted to it than to the \nscientific image. The manifest image is richer and more diverse \nthan might at first be thought.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"17","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9sj3k7qx","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Andrew","middle_name":"","last_name":"Brook","name_suffix":"","institution":"Carleton University , University of Oxford","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1995-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/33045/galley/24107/download/"}]}