- Published: 2 July 2024
- ISBN: 9780262552615
- Imprint: MIT Press Academic
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 376
- RRP: $110.00
Cognitive Pluralism

















- Published: 2 July 2024
- ISBN: 9780262552615
- Imprint: MIT Press Academic
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 376
- RRP: $110.00
"Horst provides a masterful, comprehensive defense of the idea that almost every part of philosophy changes once we recognize the importance of mental models for our cognition. Anyone working in philosophy of mind, language, or epistemology will need to engage with his ideas and arguments."
--David Danks, Professor of Philosophy and Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University; author of Unifying the Mind: Cognitive Representations as Graphical Models
"In a series of impressive books, Steven Horst has been educating the philosophical community about how to think rigorously about cognition. In this volume, he sets out a comprehensive theory of cognitive architecture and cognition, scouting its implications for methodology in cognitive science, for epistemology, and for semantics. The account is meticulously anchored in important empirical work and is defended with rigor, clarity, and elegance of exposition. The pluralism Horst develops is highly original and runs against the grain of much contemporary systematic thought in philosophy of mind today about the structure of the mind. So much the worse for orthodoxy; Horst's view is by far the most compelling and carefully articulated on offer."
--Jay L. Garfield, Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Professor of Humanities, Yale-NUS College; Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, Smith College