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Conference Announcement: Varieties of Intentionality

John Schwenkler April 23, 2019 April 23, 2019 Conferences / Intentionality

Dates: Friday, May 10 and Saturday, May 11 Location: The New School, Arnhold Hall, Room I-202, 55 West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011 Website: www.varietiesofintentionality.com On Friday May 10 and Saturday May 11, there will be a two-day conference at the New School for Social Research, titled “Varieties of Intentionality.” …

4. Cognitive Structures, Predictive Coding and the Free Energy Principle

Majid D. Beni April 18, 2019 November 9, 2022 M.D. Beni: Cognitive Structural Realism / Philosophy of Science

As I explained in the previous post, CSR’s account of scientific representation is based on the neuroscientific account of the brain-world relationship. The neuroscientific account is presented in terms of the Predictive Processing Theory (PPT) and the Free Energy Principle (FEP) as being developed by Karl Friston and others. PPT …

3. Introducing Cognitive Structures

Majid D. Beni April 17, 2019 November 9, 2022 M.D. Beni: Cognitive Structural Realism / Neuroscience / Philosophy of Science

In the previous post, I have remarked that the existing forms of SR do not use the full capacity of their logical frameworks to account for a substantial relation between the structure of the scientific theories and reality. If we regiment the structure of scientific theories into formal frameworks that …

2. A Tale of Two Theories

Majid D. Beni April 16, 2019 November 9, 2022 M.D. Beni: Cognitive Structural Realism / Philosophy of Science

Previously I introduced the problem of scientific representation and remarked that Cognitive Structural Realism (CSR) aims to address it. CSR is (evidently) a version of SR, but it is also the inheritor of Ronald Giere and colleagues’ Cognitive Models of Science Approach (CMSA). In this post, I explain how CSR …

Ophelia Deroy on Defining and measuring cognition in predictive accounts of the mind

Nick Byrd April 15, 2019 April 15, 2019 Neural Mechanisms Online / NM Webinar

The Brains blog is excited about the next Neural Mechanisms webinar this Friday. It is free. You can find information about how and when to join in this post.

1. Cognitive Structural Realism

Majid D. Beni April 15, 2019 April 14, 2019 M.D. Beni: Cognitive Structural Realism / Philosophy of Science

I am grateful to John Schwenkler for giving me the opportunity to present my first book Cognitive Structural Realism, which aims to consolidate the ties between the philosophy of science and cognitive science. There already is some connection between these fields, given that the philosophy of cognitive science is a …

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John Schwenkler April 15, 2019 April 23, 2019 books

We are grateful to Majid Davoody Beni for blogging this week on Cognitive Structural Realism: A Radical Solution to the Problem of Scientific Representation (Springer, 2019). To view all of Majid’s post on a single page, please click here.