title: COGNITION FOR SCIENCE? Book Review of Giere on Scientific Cognition creator: Dittrich, W.H. subject: Psycoloquy subject: Cognitive Psychology subject: Philosophy of Science description: In this review of Giere's Cognitive Models of Science (1992), underlying theoretical assumptions of cognitive models are examined from a psychological and philosophical viewpoint. In particular, the aim of the book to constitute a unified cognitive model for the sciences is addressed. The ambiguity of cognitive processes is discussed as a major problem for cognitive explanations of science theory from a Kantian point of view. date: 1994 type: Journal (On-line/Unpaginated) type: PeerReviewed format: text/html identifier: http://cogprints.org/370/1/newpsy.html identifier: Dittrich, W.H. (1994) COGNITION FOR SCIENCE? Book Review of Giere on Scientific Cognition. [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)] relation: http://cogprints.org/370/