Belief – The Brains Blog

The ethical quandary at the core of how we represent the mind in practical uses of psychology is the technology of agency. The biomedical and psychodynamic (i.e., discursive) approaches are “tw...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2023/03/30/drugs-and-agency.aspx

In A Suspicious Science, I analyze the epistemic context of the uses of psychology in contemporary society so as to develop an interdisciplinary, multi-level human science. I distinguish three us...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2023/03/26/a-suspicious-science-the-uses-of-psychology.aspx

The next Neural Mechanisms Online webinar— “Believing Conspiracy Theories: A Bayesian Approach to Belief Protection”—will be delivered by Nina Poth & Krys Dolega on Friday the 25th. See b...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2022/03/16/15519.aspx

There are good reasons to suppose that the infant’s innate disposition for informational sensitivity is grounded on a representational mind. As Kim Sterelny (1991, p. 21) writes: «there can be...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2020/06/24/the-representational-propositional-and-conceptual-dimension-of-infant-belief-attribution-capacity.aspx

This week, I’m blogging about my new book, The Epistemic Role of Consciousness (Oxford University Press, September 2019). Today, I’ll discuss the epistemic role of consciousness in cognition....

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2019/09/11/beliefs-and-subdoxastic-states.aspx

Today—in my (alas!) last posting—I suggest some ways the account of the evolution of representational decision making laid out in my book (and sketched in outline last time on the blog) can b...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2018/03/22/applications-of-the-account-of-the-evolution-of-representational-decision-making.aspx

Why did some organisms switch from relying just on reflexive—i.e. purely perceptually-driven—interactions with the world to also employing the tools of representational decision making? What ...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2018/03/21/the-evolution-of-representational-decision-making.aspx

Before it is possible to begin the investigation of the evolution of representational decision making it is necessary to address three foundational issues: (1) The nature of representational deci...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2018/03/20/foundations-of-the-investigation-of-the-evolution-of-representational-decision-making.aspx

I want to thank John Schwenkler for inviting me to blog about my new book, Efficient Cognition—The Evolution of Representational Decision Making. I am excited to be sharing with you all the rea...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2018/03/19/efficient-cognition-the-evolution-of-representational-decision-making.aspx

Mark your calendars! The conference starts Monday and runs for three weeks. The first session's papers are already posted. Commenting for the first session starts Monday. Check out the full post ...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2017/09/09/2017-minds-online.aspx