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3. Literalism (Expanded Somewhat)

Carrie Figdor May 9, 2018 May 7, 2018 animal cognition / Carrie Figdor: Pieces of Mind

Anthropocentric tradition holds that the (somewhat idealized) human case is the standard for what counts as a real instance of a psychological capacity. But even if we learn about minds from the human case, it does not follow that humans are the standard for objectively correct ascriptions. For the Literalist, …

2. The Evidence

Carrie Figdor May 8, 2018 May 7, 2018 Carrie Figdor: Pieces of Mind / Models

In my previous post I set up the problem of how to interpret the uses of psychological predicates in many unexpected domains throughout biology. In this one I will describe in general the evidence on which the extensions are based. I divide this evidence into two types: qualitative analogy and …

1. The Problem

Carrie Figdor May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018 animal cognition / Carrie Figdor: Pieces of Mind / Concepts

I first want to thank John for this opportunity to present and discuss my book with the Brains readership, and for his artful shepherding of the blog in general. I don’t know how he does it, but I’m grateful that he does. So, on to the book. Pieces of Mind …

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John Schwenkler May 7, 2018 May 14, 2018 Carrie Figdor: Pieces of Mind

Thanks to Carrie Figdor for blogging this week on Pieces of Mind: The Proper Domain of Psychological Predicates, forthcoming next month from Oxford University Press. To view all her posts on a single page, please click here.

Symposium on Joshua Shepherd’s “Halfhearted Action and Control”

Aaron Henry April 30, 2018 April 30, 2018 Action / dispositions / Ergo Symposia

Welcome to our fifth Ergo symposium. This week we are showcasing Joshua Shepherd’s paper “Halfhearted Action and Control”, with commentaries by Andreas Elpidorou (Louisville), Nora Heinzelmann (Munich), and Zachary Irving (Virginia). Let me begin by thanking all the participants for their great work! Shepherd introduces his topic with a possibly familiar …

Symposium on Del Pinal and Spaulding, “Conceptual Centrality and Implicit Bias”

Robert Briscoe April 23, 2018 April 23, 2018 Mind & Language Symposia / Philosophy of Mind / Psychology / Social Cognition

I’m very glad to announce our latest Mind & Language symposium on Guillermo Del Pinal and Shannon Spaulding’s “Conceptual Centrality and Implicit Bias” from the journal’s February 2018 issue. Commentators on the target article include Bryce Huebner (Georgetown), Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh), Eric Mandelbaum (CUNY), Steven Sloman (Brown), and Ema Sullivan-Bissett (Birmingham). *** The term “implicit bias” is typically used refer …

Systems Neuroscience Highlights: March 2018

Eric Thomson April 19, 2018 April 20, 2018 Neuroscience

I’ll be posting summaries each month of high-quality, general-interest papers from the systems neuroscience literature (usually there are one to five such papers a month). I plan to post them in the middle of the following month (depending on what else is going on here at Brains). Efference copy: from …