How should philosophers (and others) approach the topic of causation and causal reasoning? Causation with a Human Face (CHF) proposes an approach that brings together results from a number of different disciplines, both descriptive ( e.g., the empirical psychology of causal cognition) and normative (statistics, econometrics, machine learning, philosophy). The guiding idea is that causal …
Dustin Stokes Again I want to thank Becko, Jonna, and John. I truly respect their research and it’s flattering that they each took the time to read the book and offer such insightful commentary. It has given me a lot to think about. The comments are distinctive, each taking up …
John Zeimbekis It’s a relief to see a new book about how perception interacts with thought. Decades of work on modularity and other distinguishing traits of perception (perception as nonconceptual, analog, iconic, unstructured) leave us with a picture of thought as informationally separate from perception, but few suggestions about how …
Jonna Vance (she/her) Northern Arizona University jonnavance.com [Note: All citations are to Stokes (2021) Thinking and Perceiving (Routledge), unless otherwise noted.] In the final few chapters of Thinking and Perceiving, Stokes turns to perceptual expertise: an enhanced capacity for perceptual recognition or discrimination. In Chapter 6, Stokes offers a pluralistic …
Becko Copenhaver Washington University, St. Louis “We are, all of us, potential perceptual experts.” (Dustin Stokes, Thinking and Perceiving, p. 234) I’m grateful to discuss Dustin’s Thinking and Perceiving. I agree with him so much, about so much, that I hope our points of departure will be revealing. For example, …
Dustin Stokes-University of Utah dustin.stokes[@]utah.edu The broad, probably overly ambitious, agenda of the book is to shift scientific and philosophical theories of perception away from one current orthodoxy. The orthodoxy I have in mind is modularity. The alternative I favor is malleability. Anyone familiar with relevant literature knows that the …
We are thrilled to be hosting a symposium this week on Dustin Stokes’ new book, Thinking and Perceiving. We have three fantastic commentators, Becko Copenhaver, Jonna Vance, and John Zeimbekis. Dustin will provide an intro today, then we will have one commentary per day, followed by a response from Dustin …
I am not a historian. This thought did not occur to me when I set out three years ago to write a book about my field of computational neuroscience, but it has occurred to me many times since. I knew I wanted the book be more than just be a …
Thank you to Nick and his co-editors for inviting us to contribute to this symposium on writing books for general audiences! We have both written several books, and one of us – Weatherall – has written two other books for general audiences. But in this post, we are going to …
