Cognitive ontology in terms of cognitive homology – The role of brain, behavior, and environment for individuating cognitive categories By Beate Krickel and Mariel Goddu How should we categorize the mind’s capacities? This is the cognitive ontology question: how to carve up cognition in a way that supports scientific prediction, explanation, …
Rethinking the Mind with Neuroscience: Introducing Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind By Gualtiero Piccinini Many thanks to Dan Burnston for this opportunity to introduce the new edited volume, Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind. For decades, many philosophers of mind wrestled with the question of what the mind is and how it works …
Join us this week for a symposium on the new book, Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind, edited by Brains Blog founder Gualtiero Piccinini!
Styles of Rationality was written 20 years ago, well prior to any thoughts of (unicepts of) unicepts. The question of Hurley and Nudds’ book Rational Animals? was whether non-human animals were rational in any sense. I would have to think through that again now. It would be important not …
Alison Springle, University of Miami Ruth’s second post echoes the key themes of one of my favorite essays: Ruth’s “Styles of Rationality” (Ch. 4 of Hurley & Nudds 2006 Rational Animals?). A key move Ruth makes in that essay is to shift our conception of practical reasoning from the Aristotelian …
Ruth Millikan, University of ConnecticutKarl Popper spoke truly of the unique and transformative human capacity to “let our hypotheses die in our stead.” Though not his intention, Herbert Terrace has recently presented us with evidence suggesting that a more basic capacity on which this capacity rests is also unique to …
If offered ten more years to think about these matters with someone, give me Nick Shea. (And let me very strongly urge Nick’s recent book Concepts at the Interface!! (Oxford University Press. Open Access 2024) [“Unicepts at the interface’??] I am ashamed how little I now know of contemporary developments …
