What makes someone a cognitive scientist? Is it a degree in cognitive science? Or in one of its constitutive disciplines along with a research focus on the mind? Or publishing in cognitive science journals? Or something else? 🤔
@ninokadic@cogsci@cognition@academicchatter I’d say it’s research focus — I know various folks I’d describe as “cognitive scientists” whose degrees are in psychology or philosophy or neuroscience.
@michaelgemar@cogsci@cognition@academicchatter I'm leaning towards that as well. There seems to be a necessary element of collaboration, not just interdisciplinarity in principle, in cognitive science. Of course, if someone gets a degree in cognitive science in a programme that involves such interdisciplinarity and collaboration, that would be great too. So great that I'm tempted to get another Master's in it, it's really attractive to me haha
@ninokadic@cogsci@cognition@academicchatter My experience (North American academe) is that once you’ve got a PhD, you can pretty much get what you need via direct collaborations/contacts, and a further degree isn’t all that helpful. (I have a good friend who augmented his psychology doctorate with a PhD in philosophy, but that really didn’t open any more doors for him.)
@michaelgemar@cogsci@cognition@academicchatter Yeah, I think it's pretty much the same here in Europe (or at least the UK and Croatia). However, a short one-year MA or a part-time flexible one alongside work could be fun, just to fill out gaps in knowledge.
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