[CogSci] Call for Papers: Cultural Variation in Cognition

[Joshua Knobe]

Review of Philosophy and Psychology Special Issue: Call for Papers on
Cultural Variation in Cognition

Call for Papers - Cultural Variation in Cognition (
https://www.springer.com/journal/13164/updates/18149078)
Editors - Edouard Machery, Stephen Stich, and Joshua Knobe

This special issue will bring together scientists and philosophers with
radically different views about two outstanding and still controversial
questions:
To what extent and in what way is cognition influenced by culture?
Is cross-cultural research essential to cognitive science?
Ten years ago, in their groundbreaking article in Behavioral and Brain
Sciences, “The weirdest people in the world,” Heine, Henrich, and
Norenzayan challenged the behavioral sciences to take into account the
radical influence of culture on cognition and behavior, but despite the
undeniable success of this article and growing interest in cross-cultural
research, studying cultural variation remains an afterthought in much of
the social sciences.

We are inviting articles addressing the question of the influence of
culture on cognition and the place of cross-cultural research in the
behavioral sciences.

The following questions are of particular interest for this special issue:

1. What is the extent of cultural variation in cognition? Is the human mind
fundamentally uniform across cultures (the “psychic unity” of humanity)?

2. Why does cognition vary across cultures (if it does)?

3. Should psychology be a historical science like historical linguistics?

4. Is the WEIRD vs. non-WEIRD distinction useful for psychology and other
behavioral sciences? How to go beyond it?

5. Is the concept of culture useful to study cognitive variation? How to
identify the cultural units that are relevant for psychology?

6. How to analyze cross-cultural data?

7. What are the challenges for cross-cultural research?

8. How can team science contribute to cross-cultural research? What are its
challenges and limitations?

9. How to do cross-cultural research in an ethical manner? How should local
populations be involved? Can local populations contribute to the
formulation of scientific questions themselves?

10. How should a Constraint on Generality statement be required for
publication?

11. What implications do debates about cultural variation in cognition have
for traditional philosophical issues and for philosophical methodology?

Deadline: April 1, 2021

Papers are to be submitted to the *Review of Philosophy and Psychology*
under the SI: Cultural Variation in Cognition. Please contact Edouard
Machery (Machery at pitt.edu) if you have any questions.
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