Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition: Review
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Enactivist Interventions: Rethinking the Mind (Review)
Rick Grush’s review of Shaun’s Enactivist Interventions: Rethinking the Mind in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Cognitive scienceEmbodied cognitive scienceenactivismphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindrepresentationalismShaun Gallaghersituated cognition
Jerry Fodor
Obit (of sorts) in LRB but well worth reading his IEP entry. Update: here is the NYT obit. I hate relativism. I hate relativism more than I hate anything else, excepting, maybe, fiberglass powerboats… surely, surely, no one but a relativist would drive a fiberglass powerboat. Cognitive sciencefunctionalismJerry FodorPhilosophy of mindrepresentationalism
Why Philosophers Are Obsessed With Brains in Jars
An old philosophical chestnut discussed in The Atlantic. Words and concepts used by a brain in a vat can’t be meaningfully applied to real objects outside of the brain’s experience, because the ability to have causal interaction with the specific things that words name is inherently how such words acquire meaning, Putnam argued. Artificial intelligenceCognitive…
Andy Clark on “Predicting Peace: An end to the representation wars?”
Andy ClarkCognitive sciencePhilosophy of mindpredictive processingrepresentationalism
Can you really upload your mind?
Radio discussion on ABC’s The Philosopher’s Zone Self/less— a film currently doing the rounds—entertains the idea of digital immortality. It might be a work of science fiction but what it portrays is gaining serious traction in the real world. A number of philosophers, neuroscientists, and assorted futurists believe that by mid century a safe form…
Must cognition be representational?
William Ramsey in Synthese CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessDavid Marrdistributed cognitionExtended MindFolk psychologyphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindrepresentationalismsituated cognition
Extensive enactivism: why keep it all in?
This open access from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Radical enactive and embodied approaches to cognitive science oppose the received view in the sciences of the mind in denying that cognition fundamentally involves contentful mental representation. This paper argues that the fate of representationalism in cognitive science matters significantly to how best to understand the extent…
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