Scienze cognitive e Semiotica: epistemologie e prospettive a confronto

Abstract

In this paper we want to compare on a methodological level two of the most important, and apparently divisive, paradigms in the history of contemporary epistemology: semiotics and cognitive science. Starting from a brief analysis of the epistemological phases of cognitive science, from computationalism to the current embodied paradigm, we will demonstrate that the two paradigms are not in opposition and that, on the contrary, it is possible to adopt a perspective of transdisciplinary integration based on the definition of cognition constrained by the body in interaction with the environment. The embodied proposal seems to allow a theoretical convergence between humanistic-social studies and natural-scientific studies, and the current perspectives of semiotics and cognitive science represent an example of this effort to unify knowledge.