Philosophy and Cognitive Science II, Western and Eastern Studies

Today, the relationships between Asia and the Western world make headlines only when they concern economic deals, folk-ideological confrontations, or divergent ideas on how to solve international crises. The cultural and, more specifically, academical links are frequently disregarded. This book aims at being an argument against such systematic lack of interest for the results of collaborations between Western and Eastern intellectuals and academics: what emerges from the juxta- position of papers of different geo-cultural origins—but dealing with the same issues—is sometimes a novel approach, which takes advantage of the multifaceted sensibilities inherited by the scholarly legacies that contributed to the debate. This volume is a collection of selected papers that were presented at the international conference Philosophy and Cognitive Science (PCS2013), held at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, P.R. China, in November 2013 (chairs Lorenzo Magnani and Ping Li) and at the International Workshop Visual Abduction or Abductive Vision? held at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Daejeon, South Korea, in October/November 2013 (chair Woosuk Park).
The papers by Athanassios Raftopoulos “Reframing the Problem of Cognitive Penetrability,” Xiang Chen “The Emergence and Development of Causal Representations,” Luigi Pastore, Sara Dellantonio, Claudio Mulatti, and Remo Job “On the Nature and Composition of Abstract (Theoretical) Concepts: The X- Ception Theory and Methods for Its Assessment,” Selene Arfini and Lorenzo Magnani “An Eco-Cognitive Model of Ignorance Immunization,” Woosuk Park “Towards a Caricature Model of Science,” and Lorenzo Magnani “Violence and Abductive Cognition Epistemology and Ethics Entangled” were presented at PCS2013. The papers by Lorenzo Magnani “Understanding Visual Abduction. The Need of the Eco-Cognitive Model,” Cameron Shelley “Biomorphism and Models in Design,” Jeongmin Lee, “The Correspondence Principle, Formal Analogy, and Scientific Rationality,” Jun-Young Oh, YooShin Kim, Chun-Hwey Kim, Byeong- Mee Min, Yeon-A Son “Understanding Galileo’s Inquiries about the Law of Inertia,” Athanassios Raftopoulos “Abductive Inference in Late Vision,” and Woosuk Park “From Visual Abduction to Abductive Vision” were presented at the KAIST Workshop on abduction.
Previous volumes prepared the basis for the realization of PCS2013 and of KAIST Vision Workshop, as meetings explicitly devoted to the conjunction of Western and Eastern studies. These volumes also originated from international joint research projects, which succeeded in establishing a first relationship between the two worlds in the area of philosophy and cognitive science. Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery, edited by L. Magnani, N.J. Nersessian, and P. Thagard (Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, 1999), based on the papers presented at the first “model-based reasoning” international conference, held at the University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy in December 1998, has been translated into Chinese, China Science and Technology Press, Beijing, 2000. Abduction, Reason, and Science by L. Magnani was translated by Dachao Li and Yuan Ren and published by Guangdong People’s Publishing House, Guangzhou, in 2006. Other volumes, Science, Cognition, and Consciousness, edited by P. Li et al. (JiangXi People’s Press, Nanchang, China, 2004, published in Chinese and English), Philosophical Investigations from a Perspective of Cognition, edited by L. Magnani and P. Li (Guangdong People’s Publishing House, Guangzhou, China, 2006, published in Chinese), Model-Based Reasoning in Science, Technology, and Medicine, edited by L. Magnani and P. Li (Springer, Berlin/New York, 2007), der