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Talking to Ourselves: Inner Speech and Natural Language as a Language of Thought By Wade Munroe We talk to ourselves. Sometimes we do so out loud. However, frequently, we do so without making a sound. We use inner speech. In my contribution to Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind, I argue that …

Inference in (neuro)cognitive systems By Urte Laukaityte and Matteo Colombo Psychologists speak of perceiving as inferring. Neuroscientists maintain that the brain solves inference problems. Biologists say that individual cells infer the structure of their environment. Computer scientists suggest artificial systems can at times draw better inferences than humans. For many …

Frames of Discovery and the Format of Cognitive Representation By Dimitri Coelho Mollo & Alfredo Vernazzani A central assumption in contemporary cognitive science and AI is that cognition involves internal representations. Quite like public, external representations, such as texts, pictures and maps, internal representations carry contents (i.e. they are about …

Cognitive ontology in terms of cognitive homology – The role of brain, behavior, and environment for individuating cognitive categories By Beate Krickel and Mariel Goddu How should we categorize the mind’s capacities? This is the cognitive ontology question: how to carve up cognition in a way that supports scientific prediction, explanation, …

Rethinking the Mind with Neuroscience: Introducing Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind By Gualtiero Piccinini Many thanks to Dan Burnston for this opportunity to introduce the new edited volume, Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind. For decades, many philosophers of mind wrestled with the question of what the mind is and how it works …