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Cognitive Science and the Reconceptualization of Social Theory Naturalizing the Social

By Stephen P. Turner Copyright 2026
344 Pages
by Routledge

Cognitive Science and the Reconceptualization of Social Theory explores how core social science ideas can be naturalized and reconceptualized through the lens of cognitive science. It bridges the gap between emerging cognitive research and established social theory by demonstrating how concepts central to sociology and related fields can be understood in cognitive science terms. This book’s... Read more

1. Social Theory as a Cognitive Neuroscience  2. The Cognitive Dimension I: Comte and Spencer  3. The Cognitive Dimension II: Neo-Kantianism and Beyond  4. Habit Is Thus the Enormous Flywheel of Society: Pragmatism, Social Theory, and Cognitive Science  5. Verstehen Naturalized  6. Naturalizing the Tacit: The Limits of Phenomenology  7. Do We Need Schemes to Understand? Naturalizing Kögler  8. The Naturalistic Moment in Normativism  9. Polanyi and Tacit Knowledge  10. Making Collective Practices Into Psychological Facts: The Russian Psychology Model  11. Digital Affordances and the Liminal  12. The Great Agency Muddle

Biography

Stephen P. Turner is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Florida, USA. He has been author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of more than 30 books and has been translated into thirteen languages.