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The book covers a wide spectrum of topics from experimental philosophy and cognitive scientific theory to social epistemology and research and innovation policy. In this sense it connects to Volume I, “Mind, Rationality, and Society”. It is a further application of Methodological Cognitivism in areas such as scientific discovery, technology transfer and innovation policy. It analyses the impact of cognitive science on philosophical problems like causality and truth. The book is divided into four parts. The first is about the philosophy of causality; the second deals with the cognitive basis of scientific rationality; the third examines cognitive realism, social epistemology and science policy; and the fourth focuses on knowledge transfer and innovation policy. This Introduction will present some of the main topics of each chapter by referring to parts of the original texts.

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    A set of properties A supervenes upon another set B in order to ensure that no two things can differ with respect to A-properties without also differing with respect to their B-properties. In slogan form, ‘there cannot be an A-difference without a B-difference’.

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Viale, R. (2013). Introduction. In: Methodological Cognitivism. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40216-6_1

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