| Journal: | Ludus vitalis |
| Database: | CLASE |
| System number: | 000365479 |
| ISSN: | 1133-5165 |
| Authors: | Venturelli, Nicolás1 |
| Institutions: | 1Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Facultad de Psicología, Córdoba. Argentina |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Volumen: | 20 |
| Number: | 37 |
| Pages: | 151-174 |
| Country: | México |
| Language: | Español |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Teórico, analítico |
| English abstract | The central aspects of dynamical explanation in the cognitive sciences are identified and analyzed within the theoretical and methodological assumptions that define the young dynamical approach in the field. My analysis draws on the dynamic field model for the A-not-B error (Thelen, et al. 2001) in developmental psychology, taken as a case study. I attempt to tackle the recent accusations which maintain that the dynamicists’ style of work falls short of being explanatory and is merely descriptive, on account of the extensive use of the mathematical language proper to dynamical systems. Accordingly, the discontinuist pretensions confronted with the classical cognitivist accounts are here further justified, particularly regarding of the underlying notion of explanation |
| Disciplines: | Ciencia y tecnología |
| Keyword: | Ciencia, Ciencias cognitivas, Enfoque dinámico, Psicología del desarrollo, Error A-no-B, Thelen, Esther, Sistemas dinámicos, Dinamicismo |
| Full text: | Texto completo (Ver PDF) |
