The Origins of Cognitive Science: A Tale of Many Meetings

With its intellectual origins predating the birth of the discipline and born to many contributing domains, Cognitive Science has had an uncharted but a fascinating growth. While the inadequacy of resources available and the absence of historically sensible narratives prevent stringing together a sequence of influences crucial to the meandering and transition of focus areas in Cognitive Scientific works, on the other hand, the many meetings and its theme, the participants and their works, hold vital clues to the coming into being of a nouveau science. This paper investigates the gradual growth of the discipline from the perspective of many meetings held and keeps a tab of how Cognitive Science has progressed in close correspondence with the overall advances of science and technology, over the years.