Re: [xmca] Fw: Announcing New Cognitive Science Network

[Mike Cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

Great BRuce, Something to read, at last!
:-)

We need ambassadors to go around and collect up all the treasures out there
and report back!!
mike

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Bruce Robinson <bruce@brucerob.eu> wrote:

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> Subject: Announcing New Cognitive Science Network
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> We are pleased to announce the creation of the Cognitive Science Network
> (CSN). It will provide a worldwide, online community for research in all
> areas of cognitive science, following the model of other subject matter
> networks within SSRN.
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> We expect CSN to become a comprehensive online resource for research in
> cognitive science, providing scholars with access to current work in their
> field and facilitating research and scholarship.
>
> CSN's founding director is Mark Turner, Institute Professor, Case Western
> Reserve University - Department of Cognitive Science.
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> Initially, CSN will begin with the following 7 subject matter eJournals,
> and subscriptions will be free during the start-up phase until October 2009.
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> COGNITION & CULTURE: CULTURE, COMMUNICATION, DESIGN, ETHICS, MORALITY,
> RELIGION, RHETORIC, & SEMIOTICS
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> View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Cognition-Culture.html
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> Editor: Todd Oakley, Associate Chair, Associate Professor of Cognitive
> Science, Case Western Reserve University - Department of Cognitive Science
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> Description: Cognition & Culture focuses on the cognitive study of cultures
> as creations of human minds in environments. Its scope includes research on
> cultural manifestations, their differences and incommensurabilities, and
> their expressive and semantic regularities and universals. This eJournal
> announces working papers, meetings, and events associated with
> interdisciplinary research projects and aims at encouraging collaboration
> across disciplines. It presents research in cognitive science having to do
> with such fields as design, ethics, history, jurisprudence, morality,
> philosophy, politics, religion, sociality, science, and technology.
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> COGNITION & THE ARTS
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> View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Cognition-Arts.html
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> Editor: Mark Turner, Institute Professor, Case Western Reserve University -
> Department of Cognitive Science
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> Description: A publication dedicated to the artful mind and its
> relationship to the full range of higher-order human cognition. All
> scientific approaches are welcome, including developmental, evolutionary,
> linguistic, and comparative. Cognition & the Arts construes artistic
> behavior broadly, to include not only the various recognized genres of the
> arts but also design, style, and performance, throughout the lifecourse.
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> COGNITION IN MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE, & TECHNOLOGY
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> Editors: Gilles Fauconnier, Professor, Department of Cognitive Science,
> University of California, San Diego, and Mark Turner, Institute Professor,
> Case Western Reserve University - Department of Cognitive Science
>
> Description: Mathematical insight, scientific discovery, and technological
> innovation are hallmarks of higher-order human cognition. Cognition in
> Mathematics, Science, and Technology is dedicated to the cognitive science
> of mathematics, science, and technology - in phylogenetic descent,
> ontogenetic transformation, and historical action.
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> COGNITION LINGUISTICS: COGNITION, LANGUAGE, GESTURE
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> Editor: Mark Turner, Institute Professor, Case Western Reserve University -
> Department of Cognitive Science
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> Description: "Cognitive linguistics goes beyond the visible structure of
> language and investigates the considerably more complex backstage operations
> of cognition that create grammar, conceptualization, discourse, and thought
> itself. The theoretical insights of cognitive linguistics are based on
> extensive empirical observation in multiple contexts, and on experimental
> work in psychology and neuroscience. Results of cognitive linguistics,
> especially from metaphor theory and conceptual integration theory, have been
> applied to wide ranges of nonlinguistic phenomena." - Gilles Fauconnier.
> 2006. "Cognitive Linguistics." Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. John Wiley
> & Sons.
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> COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
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> Editor: Mark Turner, Institute Professor, Case Western Reserve University -
> Department of Cognitive Science
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> Description: Cognitive Neuroscience is dedicated to research on the
> neurobiological substrate of higher-order human cognition. All methodologies
> are welcome - philosophical to physiological, modeling to mapping,
> statistical to individual case study - in forging a research initiative that
> transcends the limitations of any one discipline or paradigm.
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> COGNITIVE SOCIAL SCIENCE
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> Editors: Mathew D. McCubbins, Professor of Political Science, Chancellor's
> Associates Chair, University of California, San Diego - Political Science,
> Adjunct Professor & Co-Director of the USC-CalTech Center for the Study of
> Law and Politics, University of Southern California - Gould School of Law,
> and Mark Turner, Institute Professor, Case Western Reserve University -
> Department of Cognitive Science
>
> Description: Mental events, however distributed, provide the defining
> problems of the social sciences. What are our basic cognitive operations?
> How do we use them in judgment, decision, action, reason, choice,
> persuasion, expression? Do voters know what they need to know? How do people
> choose? What are the best incentives? When is judgment reliable? Can
> negotiation work? How do cognitive conceptual resources depend on social and
> cultural location? How do certain products of cognitive and conceptual
> systems come to be entrenched as publicly-shared knowledge and method?
> Economists, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, and all
> other social scientists refer as a matter of course to mental events and
> typically must assume some general outline of what those mental events can
> be and how they can arise. They explore networks of mental events in social
> systems and in social cognition. Given this convergence of cognitive science
> and the social sciences at their intellectual cores, and the increasing body
> of research activity at their intersection, the Cognitive Science Network
> provides an eJournal to track and distribute new and classic research in the
> emerging field of cognitive social science.
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> EMERGENCE OF COGNITION
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> Editor: Mark Turner, Institute Professor, Case Western Reserve University -
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> Description: Dedicated to the study of the emergence of cognition,
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