This article analyses the arguments for the integration between the cognitive and social sciences. We understand interdisciplinary integration as an umbrella term that includes different ways of bringing scientific disciplines together. Our focus is on four arguments based on different ideas about how the cognitive sciences should be integrated with the social sciences: explanatory grounding, theoretical unification, constraint and complementarity. These arguments not only provide different reasons why the cognitive social sciences—i.e. disciplines and research programs that aim to integrate the social sciences with the cognitive sciences—are needed but also subscribe to different visions as to how these sciences might look like. We discuss each argument in three stages: First, we provide a concrete example of the argument. Second, we reconstruct the argument by specifying its premises, inferential structure and conclusion. Third, we evaluate the argument by analyzing its presuppositions, the plausibility of its premises, the soundness of its inferences and potential conceptual ambiguities. In the final discussion, we compare these arguments and identify the most compelling reasons why the cognitive social sciences are needed.

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认知社会科学的论点

本文分析了认知科学与社会科学之间整合的观点。我们将跨学科整合理解为一个总括术语，其中包括将科学学科整合在一起的不同方式。我们的重点是基于关于认知科学应如何与社会科学整合的不同思想的四个论点：解释基础，理论统一，约束和互补。这些论点不仅提供了为什么需要认知社会科学（即旨在将社会科学与认知科学相结合的学科和研究计划）的不同原因，而且就这些科学的外观提出了不同的看法。我们分三个阶段讨论每个论点：首先，我们提供该论点的具体示例。第二，我们通过指定前提，推论结构和结论来重构论点。第三，我们通过分析其前提，其前提的合理性，其推论的合理性和潜在的概念模糊性来评估该论点。在最后的讨论中，我们将比较这些论点，并确定为什么需要认知社会科学的最令人信服的原因。