A new action-based theory of spatial perception

Neuroscience / perception
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by Andrew Glennerster and James Stazicker (Psychology and Philosophy, University of Reading) In both the neuroscience and the philosophy of spatial perception, it is standard to assume that humans represent a perceived scene in either an egocentric or a world-based 3D coordinate frame, and a great deal of work in …

Is Well-being a Number?

Anna Alexandrova: A Philosophy for the Science of Well-Being / Ethics / Philosophy of Science
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Suppose you agreed with me that the science of well-being should strive to be value-apt, that mid-level theories is the way to provide value-aptness, and that all of this is compatible with scientific objectivity. Even so, you could still remain a skeptic about the very possibility of such a science. …

Can the science of well-being be value free?

Anna Alexandrova: A Philosophy for the Science of Well-Being / Ethics / Philosophy of Science
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  Here’s an attitude I sometimes encounter among scientists: “It is not my job as a scientist to figure out what true well-being is and to choose my constructs accordingly. My job is to study empirical relations between people’s subjective experiences and various factors, such as personality traits, behavior, socioeconomic …

What to expect when you are theorising well-being?

Anna Alexandrova: A Philosophy for the Science of Well-Being / Ethics / Philosophy of Science
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Different people expect different things from theories of well-being. Some expect that they systematise in a maximally general way intuitions about goods that constitute well-being, others that they states most important causes of well-being, still others that they help them to lead a good life. I for one ask that …

Is there a single concept of well-being?

Anna Alexandrova: A Philosophy for the Science of Well-Being / Ethics / Psychology
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My interest in what is now called the science of well-being dates back to my graduate school days at UC San Diego. Sometime in the mid-aughts I came across a debate between psychologists who advanced ‘hedonic profile’ measures of happiness and those who favoured life satisfaction questionnaires. The former argued …

2. Psychological and Computational Models of Sentence Processing

AI / computation AI / David Pereplotchik: Psychosyntax / metaphysics of mind / Models, AI, Robotics / philosophy of language / Philosophy of Mind / Philosophy of Science
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Last time, I argued that there are substantive open questions about whether the theoretical constructs of formal linguistics play any role in the psychological processes underlying language use. Let’s now address those questions. When people talk about “the psychological reality of syntax”, there are (at least) two importantly different types …

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