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McCulloch W. S. (1954) Information in the head. Synthese 9(3–5): 233–247. https://cepa.info/2825
McCulloch W. S.
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1954
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Information in the head.
Synthese
9(3–5): 233–247.
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Reprinted in: McCulloch R. (ed.) (1989) Collected works of Warren S. McCulloch. Intersystems, Salinas CA: 989–1006, Proceedings of the 9th International Significal Summer Conference, Amersfoort (Netherlands), 10–15 Aug. 1953
Meloni M. & Reynolds J. (2020) Thinking embodiment with genetics: Epigenetics and postgenomic biology in embodied cognition and enactivism. Synthese Online first.
Meloni M.
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Reynolds J.
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2020
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Thinking embodiment with genetics: Epigenetics and postgenomic biology in embodied cognition and enactivism.
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The role of the body in cognition is acknowledged across a variety of disciplines, even if the precise nature and scope of that contribution remain contentious. As a result, most philosophers working on embodiment – e.g. those in embodied cognition, enactivism, and ‘4e’ cognition – interact with the life sciences as part of their interdisciplinary agenda. Despite this, a detailed engagement with emerging findings in epigenetics and post-genomic biology has been missing from proponents of this embodied turn. Surveying this research provides an opportunity to rethink the relationship between embodiment and genetics, and we argue that the balance of current epigenetic research favours the extension of an enactivist approach to mind and life, rather than the extended functionalist view of embodied cognition associated with Andy Clark and Mike Wheeler, which is more substrate neutral.
Key words:
Enactivism
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embodied cognition
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epigenetics
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plasticity
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postgenomics
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memory
Michaelian K. & Sant’Anna A. (2019) Memory without content? Radical enactivism and (post) causal theories of memory. Synthese Online first.
Michaelian K.
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Sant’Anna A.
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2019
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Memory without content? Radical enactivism and (post) causal theories of memory.
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Radical enactivism, an increasingly influential approach to cognition in general, has recently been applied to memory in particular, with Hutto and Peeters (in: Michaelian and Debus (eds) New directions in the philosophy of memory, Routledge, New York, 2018) providing the first systematic discussion of the implications of the approach for mainstream philosophical theories of memory. Hutto and Peeters argue that radical enactivism, which entails a conception of memory traces as contentless, is fundamentally at odds with current causal and postcausal theories, which remain committed to a conception of traces as contentful: on their view, if radical enactivism is right, then the relevant theories are wrong. Partisans of the theories in question might respond to Hutto and Peeters’ argument in two ways. First, they might challenge radical enactivism itself. Second, they might challenge the conditional claim that, if radical enactivism is right, then their theories are wrong. In this paper, we develop the latter response, arguing that, appearances to the contrary notwithstanding, radical enactivism in fact aligns neatly with an emerging tendency in the philosophy of memory: radical enactivists and causal and postcausal theorists of memory have begun to converge, for distinct but compatible reasons, on a contentless conception of memory traces.
Miller M. & Clark A. (2018) Happily entangled: Prediction, emotion, and the embodied mind. Synthese 195(6): 2559–2575.
Miller M.
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Clark A.
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2018
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Happily entangled: Prediction, emotion, and the embodied mind.
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195(6): 2559–2575.
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The so-called “dark room problem” makes vivd the challenges that purely predictive models face in accounting for motivation. I argue that the problem is a serious one. Proposals for solving the dark room problem via predictive coding architectures are either empirically inadequate or computationally intractable. The Free Energy principle might avoid the problem, but only at the cost of setting itself up as a highly idealized model, which is then literally false to the world. I draw at least one optimistic conclusion, however. Real-world, real-time systems may embody motivational states in a variety of ways consistent with idealized principles like FEP, including ways that are intuitively embodied and extended. This may allow predictive coding theorists to reconcile their account with embodied principles, even if it ultimately undermines loftier ambitions.
Key words:
predictive coding
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free energy principle
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homeostasis
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good regulator theorem
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extended mind
,
explanation
Mossio M. & Bich L. (2017) What makes biological organisation teleological? Synthese 194(4): 1089–1114. https://cepa.info/4816
Mossio M.
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Bich L.
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2017
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What makes biological organisation teleological?
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194(4): 1089–1114.
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This paper argues that biological organisation can be legitimately conceived of as an intrinsically teleological causal regime. The core of the argument consists in establishing a connection between organisation and teleology through the concept of self-determination: biological organisation determines itself in the sense that the effects of its activity contribute to determine its own conditions of existence. We suggest that not any kind of circular regime realises self-determination, which should be specifically understood as self-constraint: in biological systems, in particular, self-constraint takes the form of closure, i.e. a network of mutually dependent constitutive constraints. We then explore the occurrence of intrinsic teleology in the biological domain and beyond. On the one hand, the organisational account might possibly concede that supra-organismal biological systems (as symbioses or ecosystems) could realise closure, and hence be teleological. On the other hand, the realisation of closure beyond the biological realm appears to be highly unlikely. In turn, the occurrence of simpler forms of self-determination remains a controversial issue, in particular with respect to the case of self-organising dissipative systems.
Key words:
Teleology
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organisation
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self-determination
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closure
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circularity.
Muller R. M. (2018) Merleau-Ponty and the radical sciences of mind. Synthese Online First. https://cepa.info/5726
Muller R. M.
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2018
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Merleau-Ponty and the radical sciences of mind.
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In this paper, I critically reconstruct the development of Merleau-Pontyan phenomenology and “radical embodied cognitive science” out of Berlin-School Gestalt theory. I first lay out the basic principles of Gestalt theory and then identify two ways of revising that theory: one route, followed by enactivism and ecological psychology, borrows Gestaltist resources to defend a pragmatic ontology. I argue, however, that MerleauPonty never endorses this kind of ontology. Instead, I track his second route toward an ontology of “flesh.” I show how Merleau-Ponty’s arguments for this ontology depend upon criticisms of Gestalt Psychology to which radical embodied cognitive science remains vulnerable, and show that it leads him to a romantic philosophy of nature.
Key words:
merleau-ponty
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phenomenology
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gestalt psychology
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cognitive science
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enactivism
,
ecological psychology.
Noë A. (2001) Experience and the active mind. Synthese 129(1): 41–60. https://cepa.info/5147
Noë A.
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2001
)
Experience and the active mind.
Synthese
129(1): 41–60.
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This paper investigates a new species ofskeptical reasoning about visual experience that takesits start from developments in perceptual science(especially recent work on change blindness andinattentional blindness). According to thisskepticism, the impression of visual awareness of theenvironment in full detail and high resolution isillusory. I argue that the new skepticism depends onmisguided assumptions about the character ofperceptual experience, about whether perceptualexperiences are ‘internal’ states, and about how bestto understand the relationship between a person’s oranimal’s perceptual capacities and the brain-level orneural processes on which they depend. I propose aconception of perceptual experience as a form ofskillful engagement with the environment on the partof the whole person or animal.
Key words:
High resolution
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recent work
,
blindness
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full detail
,
perceptual experience.
Orlandi N. (2017) Predictive perceptual systems. Synthese 195(6): 2367–2386.
Orlandi N.
(
2017
)
Predictive perceptual systems.
Synthese
195(6): 2367–2386.
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This article attempts to clarify the commitments of a predictive coding approach to perception. After summarizing predictive coding theory, the article addresses two questions. Is a predictive coding perceptual system also a Bayesian system? Is it a Kantian system? The article shows that the answer to these questions is negative.
Orlandi N. (2018) Predictive perceptual systems. Synthese 195(6): 2367–2386.
Orlandi N.
(
2018
)
Predictive perceptual systems.
Synthese
195(6): 2367–2386.
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This article attempts to clarify the commitments of a predictive coding approach to perception. After summarizing predictive coding theory, the article addresses two questions. Is a predictive coding perceptual system also a Bayesian system? Is it a Kantian system? The article shows that the answer to these questions is negative.
Key words:
predictive coding
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bayes
,
perception
,
kant
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expectations
,
error
,
free-energy
O’Regan J. K. & Noë A. (2001) What is it like to see: A sensorimotor theory of perceptual experience. Synthese 129(1): 79–103. https://cepa.info/2394
O’Regan J. K.
&
Noë A.
(
2001
)
What is it like to see: A sensorimotor theory of perceptual experience.
Synthese
129(1): 79–103.
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The paper proposes a way of bridging the gapbetween physical processes in the brain and the “felt” aspect of sensory experience. The approach is based onthe idea that experience is not generated by brainprocesses themselves, but rather is constituted by theway these brain processes enable a particular form of “give-and-take” between the perceiver and theenvironment. From this starting-point we are able tocharacterize the phenomenological differences betweenthe different sensory modalities in a more principledway than has been done in the past. We are also ableto approach the issues of visual awareness andconsciousness in a satisfactory way. Finally we consider a number of testable empirical consequences, one of which is the striking prediction of thephenomenon of “change blindness.”
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