Mindcraft is a series of opinion posts on current issues in cognitive science by Brains Blog founder Gualtiero Piccinini. Do you agree? Disagree? Please contribute on the discussion board below! If you’d like to write a full-length response, please contact editor Dan Burnston. Rethinking Biological Functions: A Goal-Contribution Approach and Its Systemic Implications Hanzhe …
Many thanks again to Andre Curtis-Trudel, Marcin Milkowski, Danielle Williams, and Mazviita Chirimuuta for their commentaries on our recent book The Physical Signature of Computation: A Robust Mapping Account. The medium independence of computation seems to have caused trouble for the latter three commentators, so we take this opportunity to …
This week the Brains Blog is hosting a symposium on Neal Anderson and Gualtiero Piccinini’s new book The Physical Signature of Computation: A Robust Mapping Account (Oxford University Press; eBook available here). Today’s post from Anderson and Piccinini provides introductory remarks and an overview of the content of the book. …
Mindcraft is a series of opinion posts on current issues in cognitive science by Brains Blog founder Gualtiero Piccinini. Do you agree? Disagree? Please contribute on the discussion board below! If you’d like to write a full-length response, please contact editors Dan Burnston and Nick Byrd. Recent Progress on Explaining Intentionality Gualtiero Piccinini Cross-posted …
The 1st Annual Web Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind received many excellent submissions but decided to extend the deadline to allow even more submissions. Both individual submissions and symposia of up to five people are possible.
What is the mind, and how does it work? Centuries of philosophical and scientific investigation have shown that these questions are too big to be tackled once and for all with a single explanatory endeavor. The magnitude of this pursuit has necessitated a multidisciplinary approach: several disciplinary fields have tackled …
The contemporary (Fodor-style) Language of Thought (LOT) hypothesis (not to be confused with Sellars’s reasonable hypothesis that some neural processes are somewhat analogous to linguistic episodes) is that many cognitive capacities widespread within the animal kingdom, such as perception, navigation, or caching, are explained by processing language-like representations like those …
