The cognition: the exclusive domain of the sciences?

Abstract

The analytical proposal of this essay derives from the development of contemporary knowledge of Cognitive Sciences. Being cognition its main object, the epistemological outlets attend to the History of Philosophy and to what is referred to in the margin of confluences between it and its incidence as generalizer of the social whole. That is why this paper analyzes the constitutive heritage of philosophical reflections and their concepts, within the human scientific cognitive universe and everyday thinking. The question on which the reflection is elaborated is: is it possible to understand cognition as an exclusive matter of the sciences? Given the explanatory demands associated with the technological era and its associated transitions, the study of human capacities becomes a necessity. Cognition is, then, linked to the human inner world and to the reflection of this world in our daily tasks as users and generators of assertiveness to overcome uncertainty.

The aim of this essay is to analyze how cognition as represented in the studies of cognitive sciences is the formulaic conceptual basis of the mind in the sciences and in everyday life. This topic is widely referred to in current academic studies and represents an attempt to reconcile the explanation of the present world with the bases of technological thought in which we all, in some way, participate.