Humanistic function of the cognitive science in modern society

In the article the question is raised about what kind of novelty is brought by cognitive science to the philosophic concept of cognition. It is underlined that cognitive science does not implement the reduction of the mental to the physical and does not consider all the behaviour functions as cognitive processes, but is develops a more complicated cognition model by means of natural science and humanities integration. First, cognition is understood as a process-system with a new level of complexity. It is not a reflection, not a representation and not a social activity in its diversity; it can be interpreted, in addition to the given meanings, in a complementary dimension - adaptationistic. Second, in practice of the poly-disciplinary research humans learn to see themselves as participants of the studied processes. The main peculiarity of cognitive science is that the cognition research is trans-disciplinary; it enables us to perform humanistic and communicative functions of cognitive science in modern society. In the aspect of the cognitive approach we can avoid the dichotomy of the traditional realism and constructivism in the interpretation of cognition; we can overcome the contradictions and discover the common points in the cognition discussion, interpreted as an informational reality and as a subjective reality. Another important aspect displayed in the article is the changes in the education strategies reasoned by cognitive science. To study the problems alike we require a way of thinking called system, nonlinear, complex and specialists of a new type, with the ability of such thinking.

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