Interdisciplinarity

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Interdisciplinarity

• Two types of differences
• Questions (Level of Analysis)
• Methods
• Researchers in each field use their own tools and
  ask questions at specific levels of analysis.

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Questions about Dogsin Psychology

• How do we learn the concept of dog?
• Do we over or under generalize?
• Is the concept of dog an image?
• Do we have a prototypical dog concept?
• Is it a network of propositions?
• How is it related to the concept cat?

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Linguistics

• What is the meaning of the word dog?
• Is it a mass noun or a count noun?
• What modifiers can be used with dog?
• When do children acquire the word?
• Do they learn the correct syntax (e.g., proper
  noun versus common noun)?

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Neuroscience

• Is there a dog area of the brain (like faces)?
• Is dog knowledge stored with animal knowledge,
  object knowledge . . . ?
• How are groups of cells organized to represent
  different aspects of dog?
• How is dog knowledge represented in a
  chimpanzees brain?

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Computer Science

• Can a computer have the concept dog?
• Does it make the same recognition and
  categorization mistakes as humans?
• Does a computer have the same sort of inductive
  intuitions about dogs?
• How is dog knowledge represented?

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Philosophy

• What is the relationship between knowledge in my
  head, your head, words, the objects they
  designate, and concepts in general?
• How is it that something in the head can be about
  something outside?
• Does a photograph of a dog represent a dog?
• Is there an essential dogginess?