Some Roles for Language in Concept-Driven Thinking: Comments on Nicholas Shea’s Concepts at the InterfaceEric MargolisUniversity of British Columbia There are many different questions that philosophers should be asking about concepts. One of the things that makes Concepts at the Interface such a valuable book is that it recognizes that …
This week, we are featuring a symposium on Nick Shea’s recent book, Concepts at the Interface. We have three great commentaries from Eric Margolis, Johan Heemskerk and Gualtiero Piccinini, and Sarah Fisher, then responses from Nick on Thursday and Friday. Please join us!
Mindcraft is a series of opinion posts on current issues in cognitive science by Brains Blog founder Gualtiero Piccinini. Do you agree? Disagree? Please contribute on the discussion board below! If you’d like to write a full-length response, please contact editor Dan Burnston. A lot of philosophers still consider themselves …
Talking to Ourselves: Inner Speech and Natural Language as a Language of Thought By Wade Munroe We talk to ourselves. Sometimes we do so out loud. However, frequently, we do so without making a sound. We use inner speech. In my contribution to Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind, I argue that …
Inference in (neuro)cognitive systems By Urte Laukaityte and Matteo Colombo Psychologists speak of perceiving as inferring. Neuroscientists maintain that the brain solves inference problems. Biologists say that individual cells infer the structure of their environment. Computer scientists suggest artificial systems can at times draw better inferences than humans. For many …
Frames of Discovery and the Format of Cognitive Representation By Dimitri Coelho Mollo & Alfredo Vernazzani A central assumption in contemporary cognitive science and AI is that cognition involves internal representations. Quite like public, external representations, such as texts, pictures and maps, internal representations carry contents (i.e. they are about …
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, …
