2021 Volume 28 Issue 3 Pages 410-418
In this paper, the author first reviews the history of cognitive science and explains that the view of human beings presented by cognitive science can be interpreted as a transition from the Cartesian to the Spinozistic view. The author then explains that there are two major schools of thought in the cognitive science community as to whether the method for clarifying the Spinozistic view of human nature is the Cartesian method of modern science or not, which is an extension of Toda's view of cognitive science vs. Hatano's concern about it. On the other hand, with the recent dramatic development of mathematical and statistical methods, especially computational modeling of human behavioral data, it is possible to elucidate Spinozistic view of human nature using modern scientific methods, and the author will express his personal view that this may be an approach to the reproducibility problem which has recently become an issue in the psychology community. Finally, the author will discuss how cognitive science should get along with AI, which has been making dramatic progress in recent years.
