Cognitive Science of Philosophy Symposium: Neuroaesthetics

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 …

Representation Crisis: Commentary on “Investigating the concept of representation in the neural and psychological sciences”

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, …

Reply to Ben Baker

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 …

Commentary on Favela and Machery, “Investigating the concept of representation in the neural and psychological sciences”

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 …

Favela and Machery: Precis of “Investigating the Concept of Representation in the Neural and Psychological Sciences”

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: Representations in the mind and brain sciences: Time for conceptual reform or elimination; or embrace the state of affairs?

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 …

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