За когнитивните революции и когнитивния ренесанс: първа част
On cognitive revolutions and cognitive renaissance. Part one

Summary/Abstract: The development of psychological ideas of cognition since the end of the 19th till the beginning 21st century is evaluated as a result of the scientific revolutions and the creativity of the Renaissance scientists. Four periods are delineated and they give different possibilities for conceptualization of cognition: Mentalism (1879–1920); Behaviorism (1920–1940); First Cognitive Revolution (1950–1970); Second Cognitive Revolution (1980–2007). A three-level analysis of the mentalistic period is applied. The timeline of scientific invents, which depicts the biography of dominant scientific style is outlined. A common paradigmatic cognition frame in psychological research is defined. The place of Renaissance scientists is evaluated according to their criticisms of scientific standards and the conception of universal metaphors for psychological time and space.

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