Cognitive Ontology – Part 3: Episodic Memory
In this third of four blogposts, I’m going to introduce another theoretical construct from cognitive science, episodic memory, that I discuss in my book, and I will try to summarize my argument that it...
View ArticleWhat’s (episodic) memory good for anyway?
What makes episodic memory stand out from the motley array of memory types, running the gamut from working memory through to procedural memory (with many more waiting in the wings!)? Following Muhammad...
View ArticleCognitive Ontology – Part 4: Externalism and Cognitive Kinds
As I mentioned in the first blogpost, one aspect of some cognitive kinds that I try to emphasize throughout the book is their externalism, or as I have put it, their “etiological-environmental...
View ArticleThe Individuation of Cognitive Kinds
A central thesis of Cognitive Ontology is that cognitive kinds are unlikely to reduce to neural kinds. I found one of the most exciting threads in the book to be an argument supporting this...
View ArticleThis Week: Symposium on Tillmann Vierkant’s The Tinkering Mind!
Hi Everyone! Join us this week for a symposium on Till Vierkant’s exciting new book, The Tinkering Mind! Till will kick us off today with a precis, followed by commentaries from Gloria Andrada, Paulius...
View ArticleVierkant: Precis for The Tinkering Mind
By Tillmann Vierkant, University of Edinburgh (See all posts in this symposium here.) Thanks for giving me the opportunity to say a few words about The Tinkering Mind! I have been bothered by the...
View ArticleTinkering extended minds: Rethinking direct agency.
By Gloria Andrada, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. (See all the posts in this series here.) One of my favorite things about Vierkant’s book is that it provides an original argument for extended cognition,...
View ArticleFreedom of a Tinker: Comments on Tillmann Vierkant’s The Tinkering Mind
By Paulius Rimkevicius, Chapman University (See all posts in this series here.) Like a tinker, who travels freely from place to place mending metal utensils and sometimes ends up creating quite an...
View ArticleThe Tinkering Mind against Free Will – Commentary on “The Tinkering Mind”
By Ting Huang (See all posts in this series here.) In a prior symposium on the book I posed the following clarifying questions to Vierkant regarding his stance on free will: Does “managerial control”...
View ArticleVierkant: Response to Commentaries
By Tillman Vierkant, University of Edinburgh (See all the posts in this series here.) I am very grateful to Gloria Andrada, Paulius Rimkevicius and Ting Huang for their very insightful comments. I hope...
View ArticleThis Week on Brains: Wayne Wu, Movements of the Mind
Hi All, Please join us this week for a series of posts by Wayne Wu, discussing his exciting new book, Movements of the Mind: A Theory of Intention, Attention, and Action (Oxford University Press). We...
View ArticleWu, Movements of the Mind. Post 1: The Structure of Agency.
(See all posts in this series here.) Movements of the Mind (MoM) is about the structure of agency. It also gives a theory of attention. Indeed, it also provides a theory of psychological bias. For good...
View ArticleWu, Movements of Mind. Post 2: Attention
(See all posts in this series here.) In Chapter 2 of MoM and an earlier book (second edition forthcoming), I have defended the selection for action view of attention. A subject attending to target T is...
View ArticleWu, Movements of the Mind. Post 3: Intention, Memory for Work and Working...
(See all posts in this series here.) Intention is a type of memory. I argue that research on working memory reveals the dynamics of intention as embodying the agent’s control in action. This is a new...
View ArticleWu, Movements of Mind. Post 4: Biased Attention as Implicit, Automatic Bias.
(See all posts in this series here.) Philosophers have been debating implicit biases for some time. In Chapter 5 of MoM, I argue that automatic attention provides a scrutable type of implicit bias,...
View ArticleWu, Movements of the Mind. Post 5: Deducing and Introspecting
(See all posts in this series here.) I conclude with Chapters 6 and 7 of the book, which apply the theory to reasoning and introspecting consciousness. Investigating these as forms of attending, mental...
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