Anderson and Piccinini (2024) offer a foundational approach to understanding physical computation. The book’s primary aim is to defend the notion of physical computation against trivialization. Critics argue that ascribing computation lacks a factual basis, which, if true, would render computational explanations ineffective by stripping them of explanatory power. Piccinini …
In his Thinking in Images (Bloomsbury 2023), Piotr Kozak defends the view that thinking in images in possible. The main arguments against the idea that one can think in images are two-fold. The first argument is that images are only instrumental and cognitively inferior, and knowledge traditionally consists of true …
Warsaw, June 23-26, 2016 The aim of the workshop is to discuss the recent work on mechanistic explanation, with special stress on particular problems of integration of multiple mechanistic models, robustness, and unification of partial explanations, theories and fields. There is a growing consensus that cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience …
A special issue of New Ideas in Psychology on Explaining Representation, edited by Marcin Miłkowski and Konrad Talmont-Kaminski is just out, with contributions by Bill Ramsey, Paweł Gładziejewski, Rob Clowes and Dina Mendonça, Wayne Christensen and John Michael, Witold Hensel, Krystyna Bielecka, Paweł Grabarczyk and myself. Some of the contributions are based on talks …
The eleventh KNEW workshop will take place in Kazimierz Dolny, Poland, in August, 10th to 14th. The topic for this year’s workshop is Placing Art and Music in Nature. Recent scientific research concerning art and music has thrown up a plethora of new aspects to be integrated into our understanding of …
Kazimierz Dolny, Poland – August, 18th to 22nd, 2014 Invited key-speakers Paul Thagard (Waterloo) Cristine Legare (Texas at Austin) Hugo Mercier (Neuchâtel) Call for papers Science is usually considered the paradigm of knowledge. Naturally, it has long been the subject of philosophical inquiry. Having moved away from abstract consideration of …
Kazimierz Dolny, Poland – August 19th to 23rd, 2013 Invited key-speakers Steve Butterfill (Warwick) Joel Krueger (Copenhagen) Myriam Kyselo (San Sebastian) Tad Zawidzki (George Washington) Call for papers The theme of the workshop is the significance of wide cognition – which is embodied, enacted, extended, embedded, and distributed cognition – …
