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Philosophy of biology. Philosophy of language. Philosophy of mind. Philosophy of religion. Van Orden. Cognitive Science 25 1 Add citations You must login to add citations. Order: Most recent First author. Export: Choose a format.. The social and cognitive science replication crisis is partly due to the limitations of commonly used statistical tools. Inferential statistics require that unsystematic measurement variation is independent of system history, and weak relative to systematic or causal sources of variation.
However, contemporary systems research underscores the dynamic, adaptive nature of social, cognitive, and behavioral systems. Variation in human activity includes the influences of intrinsic dynamics intertwined with changing contextual circumstances. Conventional inferential techniques presume milder forms of variability, such as unsystematic Inferential statistics indicate an elementary Newtonian cause-effect metaphor for change that is inconsistent with known principles of change in complex systems.
Pattern formation in self-organizing systems and quantum probability are used to illustrate theoretical metaphors that instantiate alternative notions of change in complex systems.
Inferential statistics and related techniques are crucial scientific resources. However, in the social and behavioral sciences, they must be practiced in conjunction with an appropriate general systems framework that accommodates intrinsic fluctuations and contextual adaptation. Philosophy of Mind. Direct download 3 more Translate. Meaning in Philosophy of Language.
Philosophy of Cognitive Science. Reference in Philosophy of Language. Direct download. Imagination is often considered the pinnacle of representational cognition. Looking at the concrete details of imagining in context, this paper aims to contribute to the emerging literature that is challenging this representational view by offering a relational and radically situated alternative. We show how the architects coordinate the enactment of multiple affordances across different timescales, from small-scale affordances of picking up a mobile phone to the large-scale affordance of making the installation that takes months to unfold.
These affordances get co-determined as they are jointly enacted. It is within this determining process that imagination too finds its place. On our view it is the indeterminacy of multiple affordances unfolding in action simultaneously that can be experienced as imaginative.
The indeterminate character of this coordinative process allows activities to widen and open up, letting new possibilities for action enter into them. Direct download 2 more Translate.
It proposes to understand such behaviors in terms of the following associations: the organization of information acquired from the environment, focusing on narrative; the organizational dynamics of epigenetic mechanisms that underly the neural processes facilitating the processing of information; and the evolution of emergent motor behaviors that enable the informational acquisition.
The article describes and explains these associations as part of a multi-ordered and multi-causal generative The article presents the explanatory implications of such a hyper-narrative dynamic model on an example of emergent motor behaviors — bruxism. Central to this discussion is the exploration of the possible mechanisms of emergence and etiopathogenesis of bruxism, based on its neurobiology. The article takes the perspective that complex systems dynamics themselves with a tendency to narrative form are found not to be underlain merely by arbitrary coded mechanisms but, rather, biological neural networks that render context-dependent bio-informational mapping analogous to that of the narrative possible.
Direct download 3 more. Cognitive Sciences. Direct download 7 more. The paper makes three points about the role of double dissociation in cognitive neuropsychology. First, arguments from double dissociation to separate modules work by inference to the best, not the only possible, explanation.
Second, in the development of computational cognitive neuropsychology, the contribution of connectionist cognitive science has been to broaden the range of potential explanations of double dissociation. As a result, the competition between explanations, and the characteristic features of the assessment of theories against the criteria of probability and Third, cognitive neuropsychology is a division of cognitive psychology but the practice of cognitive neuropsychology proceeds on assumptions that go beyond the subject matter of cognitive psychology.
Given such assumptions, neuroscientific findings about lesion location may enhance the value of double dissociation in shifting the balance of support between cognitive theories. Direct download 5 more. The dominant assumption about the causal architecture of the mind is, that it is composed of a stable set of components that contribute independently to relevant observables that are employed to measure cognitive activity.
This view has been called component-dominant dynamics. An alternative has been proposed, according to which the different components are not independent, but fundamentally interdependent, and are not stable basic properties of the mind, but rather an emergent feature of the mind given a particular task context.
In this paper, we review evidence for interaction-dominant dynamics as the causal architecture of the mind. We point out, that such an architecture is consistent with problems of convergence in research on the level of results and theorizing. Moreover, we point out that if interaction-dominant dynamics as the causal architecture of the mind were to be true, this would naturally lead to problems with generalization and replicability in sciences of the mind and brain, and would probably warrant changes in the scientific practice with regard to study-design and data analysis.
Direct download 4 more. Critical reflection on the available neuropsychological evidence suggests that the roles of emotion and reason in moral judgment may not be distinct. This casts significant doubt on our current understanding of moral judgment, and therefore also on all philosophical theories based on that understanding.
Most notably, it raises doubts about both sentimentalism and rationalism, which historically have often been treated as exclusive and exhaustive theories regarding the nature of moral concepts. As an alternative, I endorse pluralism with regard to the Direct download 2 more. Although cognitive scientists have learned a lot about concepts, their findings have yet to be organized in a coherent theoretical framework.
In addition, after twenty years of controversy, there is little sign that philosophers and psychologists are converging toward an agreement about the very nature of concepts.
Doing without Concepts Machery attempts to remedy this state of affairs. In this article, I review the main points and arguments developed at greater length in Doing without Concepts. Theories of Concepts, Misc in Philosophy of Mind. Direct download 10 more. This volume is about the many ways we perceive. Contributors explore the nature of the individual senses, how and what they tell us about the world, and how they interrelate.
They consider how the senses extract perceptual content from receptoral information. They consider what kinds of objects we perceive and whether multiple senses ever perceive a single event. They consider how many senses we have, what makes one sense distinct from another, and whether and why distinguishing senses may be useful. They consider the extent to which the senses act in concert, rather than as discrete modalities, and whether this influence is epistemically pernicious, neutral, or beneficial.
They explore both the familiar five sense modalities and other candidate sense modalities, including a sense for flavour, inner senses e. Contributors often represent competing views, and the methods they deploy sometimes differ from one essay to the next—with some drawing upon the sciences and engineering and others relying upon conceptual analysis.
All contributors agree, nonetheless, that traditional theorizing about the senses is hampered by a neglect of the senses other than vision, and by the misconception that vision is a passive receptacle for an image thrown by a lens. And many contributors believe that it is unduly restrictive to think of perception as a collation of contents provided by individual sense modalities; they think that to understand perception properly, we need to build into our accounts the idea that the senses work together.
The ambition of the volume is to begin to develop better paradigms for understanding the senses, and thereby to move toward a better understanding of perception. Crossmodal Perception in Philosophy of Mind. Distinguishing the Senses in Philosophy of Mind. Philosophy of Perception, General in Philosophy of Mind. Science of Perception in Philosophy of Mind.
Science of Perception, Misc in Philosophy of Mind. Modularity fails to converge on a fixed set of pure cases. The second failure perpetuates unending fractionation into more modules. What do double dissociations prove? Also, we thank Gary Barnes, Stan Smith, and Diane Williams for access to patients and help with conducting the studies.
Copyright: Copyright Elsevier B. N2 - Brain damage may doubly dissociate cognitive modules, but the practice of revealing dissociations is predicated on modularity being true T. AB - Brain damage may doubly dissociate cognitive modules, but the practice of revealing dissociations is predicated on modularity being true T.
Dissociations between the Processing of Proper and Common Names. Recently, some authors have claimed that a double dissociation between an "anomia for proper names" and a "selective sparing of proper names" has been demonstrated in the cognitive neuropsychology … Expand.
For 50 years theory in hard-core areas of Anglo-American psychology remained frozen into behaviorist and neo-behaviorist paradigms. In the thaw of the last 10 to 15 years the explanation of the … Expand. View 1 excerpt, references background. The Modularity of mind. An essay on faculty psychology. This monograph synthesizes current information from the various fields of cognitive science in support of a new theory of mind.
Most psychologists study horizontal processes like memory. Fodor … Expand. View 2 excerpts, references background. Dissociations, according to the target articles, are due to damaged autonomous phonologic or spelling representations.
However, a damaged recurrentnetwork model may also produce dissociations. View 3 excerpts, references methods and background. Cognitive neuropsychology is more than single-case studies. The stroop effect and the myth of automaticity.
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