Author: Kenneth Aizawa

Haugeland offers a theory of systems along the following lines: A component is a relatively independent and self-contained portion of a system in the sense that it relevantly interacts with other components only through interfaces between them (and contains no internal interfaces at the same level). An interface is a …

As a factoid from intellectual history, there is reason to believe that Descartes would be much more sympathetic to the hypothesis of embodied cognition than his critics (e.g. Haugeland, 1998, Rowlands, 1999, 2003) and some of his supporters (e.g., Grush, 2003) have suggested.  There is, for example, the well-known passage …

Thanks to Buddy, I came up with a way of reconstructing Bechtel and Mundale’s argument that does not rely on the tacit premise that univocal localization entails univocal realization.  Recall that B&M state: Nevertheless, it is important to note that in interpreting these deficits, researchers implicitly reject multiple realization among …

William Bechtel and Jennifer Mundale make the following comment regarding lesion studies and multiple realization: Nevertheless, it is important to note that in interpreting these deficits, researchers implicitly reject multiple realization among human brains and assume that damage to a brain area in anyone will result in a deficit to …