With the Minds Online conference now in the rearview mirror we are back to regular programming here at Brains, including two upcoming journal symposia and visits from the authors of several new and forthcoming books: Beginning tomorrow, Tuesday 10/11, Carl Gillett will blog for several days about his book Reduction and Emergence in …
Joëlle Proust invited me to share a link to a conference she organized recently in Paris on “Metacognitive Diversity Across Cultures: Advances and Perspectives”. The page includes video recordings of all the main talks, including keynote addresses by Asher Coriat and Chris Frith. There is also a talk by Joëlle that touches …
The featured image is a painting by Ulysses Belz, entitled “”Guided Tour Cézanne” (2013). Let me start by heartfully thanking John Schwenkler for inviting me to participate to this great blog. Thanks also to those who responded with great comments. On this occasion, I will try to respond to the initial …
My prior post about metacognitive diversity pointed to the difficulty of reconciling invariance in procedural and analytic metacognition with the high variability in predictive practices. In this post, I attempt to address the puzzle itself. How can the coherence between the three sets of data be restored? My strategy will …
An individualist viewpoint is arguably justified in the philosophy of metacognition, for classical reasons: it is mainly at the level of the individual organism that it makes sense to analyze mechanisms, feelings, and representational contents constituting epistemic sensitivity. As recognized in the conclusion of The Philosophy of Metacognition, however, metacognition …
Let’s take the case of a thinker who feels that she knows a proper name but cannot yet retrieve it. There are three kinds of possible ways for explaining how her evaluation has been conducted: 1) she gets direct access to the content of her state; 2) she gets indirect, …
Why is metacognition central for contemporary philosophy? A first reason is that it is an essential ingredient in cognitive actions, i.e. actions that one performs in order to decide whether it’s worth trying to remember, solve a problem, and whether the result you obtained is valid or not. Metacognition offers …
