Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: The distinction between domain specificity and domain generality is widespread in cognitive science.Yet, the difference between the two types of cognitive capacities has rarely been made in a principled manner.Moreover, some of the examples that are put forward to illustrate it in the literature are either spurious or misleading.In this paper, I use a number of examples to determine what domain specificity is, and just as importantly, what it is not.A domain-specific cognitive system is one that is in principle generalizable, but which the cognizer does not extend to cases that the system did not originally evolve to deal with.
Author: Muhammad Ali Khalidi
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2626937339