hi, I come from a background in philosophy (mainly social epistemology) and documentary/art practice, and I’ve recently become interested in cognitive science. I’m trying to identify rigorous research directions that study how conceptual tools/frameworks shape our understanding itself. I’m interested in things like: \- how categories/frameworks reorganise our understanding \- how explanatory models shape the phenomena they describe \- cognitive architecture of our minds and how it potentially shapes our mental foraging behaviors \- how people structure abstract meaning, individually or collectively Coming a bit from social sciences side, a lot of mainstream cogsci/decision-making research feels somewhat dry or detached from "real people" to me. But at the same time I’m also starting to be more interested in approaches that are more methodical/formal (scientific?) than purely literary or interpretive theory. I’d like to gain experience in quantitative/computational approaches too.…