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L'article offre un aperçu de l'élaboration épistémologique du concept de cognition dans la revue Hermès. L'engagement de la revue dans le champ des sciences de la cognition offre les gages d'une résistance au scientisme qui menace, et propose au lecteur des contributions susceptibles de prévenir les écueils du dogmatisme. La psychologie ordinaire des enseignants, par exemple, pourrait trouver des prolongements multidimensionnels – c'est à- dire sur le triple terrain de la cognition, de la communication et de la politique – concernant des thèmes aussi urgents que ceux de l'attention, des émotions, de la motivation ou de l'intention. Les stratégies pédagogiques destinées à augmenter la rétention d'information, à organiser les apprentissages distribués ou à éclairer les voies de la métacognition sont du ressort des approches anti-réductionnistes endossées par Hermès. ; This article offers an overview of how the concept of cognition has been developed epistemologically in Hermes. The journal's engagement in the field of cognitive science testifies to its resistance to the threat of scientism and offers readers contributions that avoid the pitfalls of dogmatism. The ordinary psychology of teachers, for example, can be productively examined in many other areas – i.e. cognition, communication, and politics – regarding topics as urgent as attention, emotion, motivation, and intention. Pedagogical strategies aimed at increasing retention of information, at organising distributed learning, and at shedding light on the pathways of metacognition fall under the remit of the anti-reductionist approaches espoused by Hermes.

AbstractThis paper shows that recent arguments from group problem solving and task performance to emergent group level cognition that rest on the social parity and related principles are invalid or question begging. The paper shows that standard attributions of problem solving or task performance to groups require only multiple agents of the outcome, not a group agent over and above its members, whether or not any individual member of the group could have accomplished the task independently.

Primate Cognition. Michael Tomasello and Josep Call. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.518 pp.

Debates in applied ethics about the proper treatment of animals often refer to empirical data about animal cognition, emotion, and behavior. In addition, there is increasing interest in the question of whether any nonhuman animal could be something like a moral agent.

In this paper I draw from critical work on the historical, social, political, economic, and cultural functions of race, to trace how Axel Honneth's recognition as a critical social theory of justice is activated through racial thinking. In my analyses, I outline the need to theorize recognition as a "racial recognition"; complicating current theories, which seem to continuously inscribe the bourgeois white male as the true provider of justice and the bearer of rights; the true subject. Critical questions for social work are raised. How might race/racial thinking underlie our visions of social justice, and who benefits from this? What happens when we re-view the social and political justice intentions of social work through the lens of global white supremacy, say, as we move towards international development work in the global south? This paper presents important theoretical positions on race and the "morality" of recognition as social justice, which contribute highly to critical, socio-political, anti-racist social work theory and practice.