ABSTRACT
There is a general consensus that the most critical event(s) of the cognitive revolution occurred in the year 1956. The historical roots of the issues that have been at the center of attention since the cognitive revolution have been traced back to the 17th-century philosophy of enlightenment as well as to ancient Greek philosophy. The relationships between the cognitive revolution in the middle of this century and the history of philosophy and science are intricate and complicated, at least as intricate and complicated as the history of philosophy and science itself. Human knowledge acquisition can thus be scientifically investigated within the realm of a psychological science without being framed by such restrictive presuppositions as an empiricist or rationalist epistemology. As a science, the field of psychology is defined through the content area that is being researched and by the scientific methods that are thereby applied.
