Cognition – The Brains Blog

In this series, I summarized major arguments in A Suspicious Science: The Uses of Psychology. My exploration of the uses of psychology has emphasized the explanatory roles it fulfills within broa...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2023/03/31/creative-uses-of-psychology-and-reflexivity.aspx

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

Welcome to the Brains Blog’s Symposium series on the Cognitive Science of Philosophy. The aim of the series is to examine the use of empirical methods to generate philosophical insights. The us...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2022/09/20/cognitive-science-of-philosophy-symposium-causal-cognition.aspx

Italian Association of Cognitive Science (AISC) midterm conference 2022 June 22-24, 2022 – University of Parma  Overview The 2022 Italian Association of Cognitive Science (AISC) midterm Confer...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2022/01/12/call-for-papers-the-affective-turn-in-cognitive-science.aspx

The primate mind of action-oriented and pushmi-pullyu representations receives a new layer of delayed-action-orientated and then reflection-oriented representations.

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2020/02/21/evolution-of-concepts.aspx

Affect as conative motivational drive is amenable to being decoupleable because it predates—and remains functional—through all evolutionarily later cognitive abilities

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2020/02/20/decoupling.aspx

A large part of our book is thus dedicated to articulating an affect-based bio-semantics, but we also take a run at pre-linguistic syntax or grammar.

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2020/02/19/embodied-grammars.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

I promised a surprise for today’s post. It’s a nasty one. Philosophical analysis is a search for the essential natures of such things as knowledge, justice, and causality. I’ve been defendi...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2019/03/29/where-are-all-the-successful-analyses.aspx

If the “theory-theory“ of concepts sketched in the previous post is correct, then we begin the philosophical analysis of a category such as knowledge equipped with nothing more than some rudi...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2019/03/27/the-reliability-of-case-judgments.aspx