Department of Psychology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
Top Cogn Sci. 2012 Jul;4(3):342-53. doi: 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2012.01196.x. Epub 2012 Jun 8.
Anthropology and the other cognitive science (CS) subdisciplines currently maintain a troubled relationship. With a debate in topiCS we aim at exploring the prospects for improving this relationship, and our introduction is intended as a catalyst for this debate. In order to encourage a frank sharing of perspectives, our comments will be deliberately provocative. Several challenges for a successful rapprochement are identified, encompassing the diverging paths that CS and anthropology have taken in the past, the degree of compatibility between (1) CS and (2) anthropology with regard to methodology and (3) research strategies, (4) the importance of anthropology for CS, and (5) the need for disciplinary diversity. Given this set of challenges, a reconciliation seems unlikely to follow on the heels of good intentions alone.
人类学和其他认知科学（CS）子学科目前保持着一种棘手的关系。我们在 topiCS 上的辩论旨在探索改善这种关系的前景，我们的介绍旨在为此辩论提供催化剂。为了鼓励坦率地分享观点，我们的评论将故意带有挑衅性。确定了成功和解的几个挑战，包括 CS 和人类学过去走过的不同道路、（1）CS 和（2）人类学在方法论和（3）研究策略方面的兼容性程度、（4）人类学对 CS 的重要性以及（5）学科多样性的必要性。鉴于这一系列挑战，仅靠良好的意愿和解似乎不太可能实现。
