ABSTRACT
Cognitive science has seen seven key dates. The first four were 1943, 1956, 1958, and 1960. Important things happened later, too: in 1969, 1986, and 1987. Those seven years (with 1947 and 1979 as runners-up) all saw seminal publications and/or influential interdisciplinary meetings, in which different methodologies and research opportunities were introduced or highlighted~or, in one case, trenchantly attacked. The current profile of the field has been shaped accordingly.
