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The application of critical theory to the study of mind and brain: examining how cognitive science's assumptions, methods, and findings are shaped by cultural context, power relations, and social structures. Critical Cognitive Science asks: whose mind is being studied? Whose brain counts as "normal"? How do cognitive categories (intelligence, rationality, mental illness) serve social control? It's cognitive science forced to confront that minds don't exist in a vacuum—they're shaped by, and shape, the social world.
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