Welcome to the Brains Blog’s Symposium series on the Cognitive Science of Philosophy. The aim of the series is to examine the use of diverse methods to generate philosophical insight. Each symposium is comprised of two parts. In the target post, a practitioner describes the method under discussion and explains …
Luis H. Favela and Edouard Machery We thank Inês Hipólito for taking the time to offer her thoughts about the concept of representation in the brain and mind sciences in response to our work. Hipólito kindly notes the strengths of our project, such as its inclusivity of participants from a …
Inês Hipólito Macquarie University, Philosophy Department In cognitive science, the notion of mental representation, stands as a central beacon, not due to unanimous agreement, but rather because it serves as the conceptual nexus through which diverse theoretical trajectories can be mapped out in their understanding of cognitive behaviour. Cognitive psychology, …
Luis H. Favela and Edouard Machery We thank Ben Baker for taking the time to offer his assessment of our project as well as some suggestions. Baker kindly notes the novelty of the project, its experimental design, and contribution to the debate about representations. He reports however being “somewhat put …
Ben Baker I admit I was somewhat put off by the first two sentences of Favela and Machery’s paper. It feels odd to use “mainstream___ism” to label merely the wide application of a concept – or even just use of the word “representation” – when we are not sure about …
Luis H. Favela and Edouard Machery We thank Dan Burnston and Nick Byrd for the opportunity to present and discuss our paper, “Investigating the concept of representation in the neural and psychological sciences” (Favela & Machery, 2023) with The Brains Blog community. Our project was sparked by the following facts: …
This week on Brains, we are happy to host a discussion of the concept of representation in the neural and psychological sciences, centered around Louie Favela and Edouard Machery‘s recent paper, “Investigating the concept of representation in the neural and psychological sciences.” We’ll have a precis of the paper today …
