[BOAI] Announcing New Cognitive Science Network

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from SSRN, via Garrett Eastman.  --Peter Suber.]


We are pleased to announce the creation of the Cognitive Science Network 
(CSN). It will provide a worldwide, online community for research in all 
areas of cognitive science, following the model of other subject matter 
networks within SSRN.

We expect CSN to become a comprehensive online resource for research in 
cognitive science, providing scholars with access to current work in their 
field and facilitating research and scholarship.

CSN's founding director is Mark Turner, Institute Professor, Case Western 
Reserve University - Department of Cognitive Science.

Initially, CSN will begin with the following 7 subject matter eJournals, 
and subscriptions will be free during the start-up phase until October 2009.

COGNITION & CULTURE: CULTURE, COMMUNICATION, DESIGN, ETHICS, MORALITY, 
RELIGION, RHETORIC, & SEMIOTICS

View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Cognition-Culture.html
Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=Cognition-Culture

Editor: Todd Oakley, Associate Chair, Associate Professor of Cognitive 
Science, Case Western Reserve University - Department of Cognitive Science

Description: Cognition & Culture focuses on the cognitive study of cultures 
as creations of human minds in environments. Its scope includes research on 
cultural manifestations, their differences and incommensurabilities, and 
their expressive and semantic regularities and universals. This eJournal 
announces working papers, meetings, and events associated with 
interdisciplinary research projects and aims at encouraging collaboration 
across disciplines. It presents research in cognitive science having to do 
with such fields as design, ethics, history, jurisprudence, morality, 
philosophy, politics, religion, sociality, science, and technology.

COGNITION & THE ARTS

View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Cognition-Arts.html
Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=Cognition-Arts

Editor: Mark Turner, Institute Professor, Case Western Reserve University - 
Department of Cognitive Science

Description: A publication dedicated to the artful mind and its 
relationship to the full range of higher-order human cognition. All 
scientific approaches are welcome, including developmental, evolutionary, 
linguistic, and comparative. Cognition & the Arts construes artistic 
behavior broadly, to include not only the various recognized genres of the 
arts but also design, style, and performance, throughout the lifecourse.

COGNITION IN MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE, & TECHNOLOGY

View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Cognition-Math-Science-Tech.html
Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=Cognition-Math-Science-Tech

Editors: Gilles Fauconnier, Professor, Department of Cognitive Science, 
University of California, San Diego, and Mark Turner, Institute Professor, 
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Cognitive Science

Description: Mathematical insight, scientific discovery, and technological 
innovation are hallmarks of higher-order human cognition. Cognition in 
Mathematics, Science, and Technology is dedicated to the cognitive science 
of mathematics, science, and technology - in phylogenetic descent, 
ontogenetic transformation, and historical action.

COGNITION LINGUISTICS: COGNITION, LANGUAGE, GESTURE

View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Cognitive-Linguistics.html
Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=Cognitive-Linguistics

Editor: Mark Turner, Institute Professor, Case Western Reserve University - 
Department of Cognitive Science

Description: "Cognitive linguistics goes beyond the visible structure of 
language and investigates the considerably more complex backstage 
operations of cognition that create grammar, conceptualization, discourse, 
and thought itself. The theoretical insights of cognitive linguistics are 
based on extensive empirical observation in multiple contexts, and on 
experimental work in psychology and neuroscience. Results of cognitive 
linguistics, especially from metaphor theory and conceptual integration 
theory, have been applied to wide ranges of nonlinguistic phenomena." - 
Gilles Fauconnier. 2006. "Cognitive Linguistics." Encyclopedia of Cognitive 
Science. John Wiley & Sons.

COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Cognitive-Neuroscience.html
Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=Cognitive-Neuroscience

Editor: Mark Turner, Institute Professor, Case Western Reserve University - 
Department of Cognitive Science

Description: Cognitive Neuroscience is dedicated to research on the 
neurobiological substrate of higher-order human cognition. All 
methodologies are welcome - philosophical to physiological, modeling to 
mapping, statistical to individual case study - in forging a research 
initiative that transcends the limitations of any one discipline or paradigm.

COGNITIVE SOCIAL SCIENCE

View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Cognitive-Social-Science.html
Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=Cognitive-Social-Science

Editors: Mathew D. McCubbins, Professor of Political Science, Chancellor's 
Associates Chair, University of California, San Diego - Political Science, 
Adjunct Professor & Co-Director of the USC-CalTech Center for the Study of 
Law and Politics, University of Southern California - Gould School of Law, 
and Mark Turner, Institute Professor, Case Western Reserve University - 
Department of Cognitive Science

Description: Mental events, however distributed, provide the defining 
problems of the social sciences. What are our basic cognitive operations? 
How do we use them in judgment, decision, action, reason, choice, 
persuasion, expression? Do voters know what they need to know? How do 
people choose? What are the best incentives? When is judgment reliable? Can 
negotiation work? How do cognitive conceptual resources depend on social 
and cultural location? How do certain products of cognitive and conceptual 
systems come to be entrenched as publicly-shared knowledge and method? 
Economists, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, and all 
other social scientists refer as a matter of course to mental events and 
typically must assume some general outline of what those mental events can 
be and how they can arise. They explore networks of mental events in social 
systems and in social cognition. Given this convergence of cognitive 
science and the social sciences at their intellectual cores, and the 
increasing body of research activity at their intersection, the Cognitive 
Science Network provides an eJournal to track and distribute new and 
classic research in the emerging field of cognitive social science.

EMERGENCE OF COGNITION

View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Emergence-Cognition.html
Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=Emergence-Cognition

Editor: Mark Turner, Institute Professor, Case Western Reserve University - 
Department of Cognitive Science

Description: Dedicated to the study of the emergence of cognition, 
especially human higher-order cognition, phylogenetically and 
ontogenetically, in evolution and development.


HOW TO SUBSCRIBE
You can subscribe to the eJournals by clicking on the "subscribe" links 
listed above. You can also subscribe to all of the eJournals at once by 
clicking here: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=CSN-all-inclusive-journal

Individual subscriptions to the CSN eJournals will be free during the 
start-up phase, ending October 2009. After that, individual subscriptions, 
for all CSN eJournals, will be $40 per year. Organizational Site 
Subscriptions will also be available.

You can modify your subscriptions by going to the SSRN User HeadQuarters: 
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Sincerely,

Mark Turner
Director
Cognitive Science Network

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