The Space Between: Post 1

Heidi Maibom, University of Cincinnati and University of the Basque Country Terminology: A first-person perspective contains three sub-perspectives: an agent perspective (how we view ourselves, our own actions, and what happens to us), an observer perspective (how we view others, their actions, and what happens to them), and an interactor …

The Mechanism of Meaning

This is the first post in a series of five about my recent book, Talking About: An Intentionalist Theory of Reference (OUP, 2022). I will start things off by trying to convey the most basic motivation behind the book in terms that should be broadly accessible to theorists and philosophers …

What Is Old Is New Again: Tool Use and COVID-19, by Valerie Hardcastle

Valerie Gray Hardcastle Institute for Health Innovation Northern Kentucky University I agree that novel tool use is connected to significant conceptual and theoretical advancement in science. Indeed, I believe that technological advancement is the primary limiting factor in neurobiological theory development. But how it is connected can differ depending on …

Cognitive Ontologies, Task Ontologies, and Explanation in Cognitive Neuroscience, by Dan Burnston

Dan Burnston Philosophy Department, Tulane University Tulane Brain Institute Tools come in a variety of forms.  Many experimental tools are ways of intervening upon and measuring the system of interest.  Other tools, however, are analytical tools – tools for organizing and scrutinizing data taken from measurement.  A major methodological advance …

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