Symposium on Del Pinal and Spaulding, “Conceptual Centrality and Implicit Bias”

Mind & Language Symposia / Philosophy of Mind / Psychology / Social Cognition
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I’m very glad to announce our latest Mind & Language symposium on Guillermo Del Pinal and Shannon Spaulding’s “Conceptual Centrality and Implicit Bias” from the journal’s February 2018 issue. Commentators on the target article include Bryce Huebner (Georgetown), Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh), Eric Mandelbaum (CUNY), Steven Sloman (Brown), and Ema Sullivan-Bissett (Birmingham). *** The term “implicit bias” is typically used refer …

Symposium on Haun, Tononi, Koch, and Tsuchiya: “Are we underestimating the richness of visual experience?”

Consciousness / Neuroscience of Consciousness Symposia / Neuroscience; Philosophy of Science / perception / perception;neuroscience
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I am delighted to announce the next symposium in our series on articles from Neuroscience of Consciousness.  We have two types of symposia.  For primarily theoretical articles, we will have several commentators from a variety of theoretical perspectives.  For novel empirical research, we will have single commentators whose goal is …

Applications of the Account of the Evolution of Representational Decision Making

animal cognition / Armin Schulz: Efficient Cognition / Belief / Cognition / Content / evolution / Folk Psychology / Intentionality / perception / Philosophy of Mind / Philosophy of Science / representation
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Today—in my (alas!) last posting—I suggest some ways the account of the evolution of representational decision making laid out in my book (and sketched in outline last time on the blog) can be applied to a number of open questions in philosophy, psychology, and economics. I will focus on three …

The Evolution of Representational Decision Making

animal cognition / Armin Schulz: Efficient Cognition / Belief / Cognition / Content / evolution / Folk Psychology / Intentionality / perception / Philosophy of Mind / Philosophy of Science / representation
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Why did some organisms switch from relying just on reflexive—i.e. purely perceptually-driven—interactions with the world to also employing the tools of representational decision making? What adaptive and other benefits does the reliance on representational decision making yield? Today, I sketch aspects of the answers to these questions; for more details, …

Foundations of the Investigation of the Evolution of Representational Decision Making

animal cognition / Armin Schulz: Efficient Cognition / Belief / Cognition / evolution / Folk Psychology / Intentionality / perception / Philosophy of Mind / Philosophy of Science / representation
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Before it is possible to begin the investigation of the evolution of representational decision making it is necessary to address three foundational issues: (1) The nature of representational decision making—what is it that we are investigating? (2) The reality of representational decision making—why think that representational decision making is a …

Efficient Cognition—The Evolution of Representational Decision Making

animal cognition / Armin Schulz: Efficient Cognition / Belief / Cognition / Content / evolution / Folk Psychology / Intentionality / perception / Philosophy of Mind / Philosophy of Science / representation
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I want to thank John Schwenkler for inviting me to blog about my new book, Efficient Cognition—The Evolution of Representational Decision Making. I am excited to be sharing with you all the reasons why I find the evolution of representational decision making such a fascinating research project. I also look …

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