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Jackie Sullivan on Optogenetics, Pluralism, and Progress
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 the webinar below or at the Neural Mechanisms website—where you can also join their mailing list to be notified of their webinars, webconferences, and …
Conference Announcement: Varieties of 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
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
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
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
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.