Introduction
This is a place-holder for a forthcoming article on controversies in cognitive systems research.

A temporary link to the draft list of controversies is here.

Current Draft List of Controversies
Introduction
How 'cognition' should be defined.
Whether all mental and neural mechanisms should be regarded as dynamical systems, and modelled as such.
The role of neural mechanisms.
Symbol-grounding vs symbol-tethering
Whether only bottom-up research and emergent phenomena can explain
The Tabula Rasa Theory of Infant Learning
Sensorimotor ontologies: Somatic vs Exosomatic
Approaches to vision: image-based and scene-based
Statistical vs structural models
Concepts of causation required by intelligent systems: Humean or Kantian, or both?
Do intelligent systems need emotions?
What sort of architecture does an intelligent system need?
What is Symbolic AI - should it be rejected? Is it needed?
Is information always in the eye of the beholder?
Should all learning and development be controlled by a single general purpose learning mechanism?
Did evolution provide a collection of pre-packaged modules that determine major human characteristics?
How did human language evolve?
Do current claims about embodiment have any non-trivial content?

Each of these is elaborated on the web page.