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30Anchors not inner codes, coordination not translation (and hold the modules please)Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25 (6): 681-681. 2002.Peter Carruthers correctly argues for a cognitive conception of the role of language. But such a story need not include the excess baggage of compositional inner codes, mental modules, mentalese, or translation into logical form (LF).
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1Artificial intelligenceIn Stephen P. Stich & Ted A. Warfield (eds.), Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Mind, Blackwell. 2002.
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64Artificial intelligence and the many faces of reasonIn Stephen P. Stich & Ted A. Warfield (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Mind, Blackwell. pp. 309--321. 2003.wide variety of things. It covers the capacity to carry out deductive inferences, to make
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142A nice surprise? Predictive processing and the active pursuit of noveltyPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 17 (3): 521-534. 2018.Recent work in cognitive and computational neuroscience depicts human brains as devices that minimize prediction error signals: signals that encode the difference between actual and expected sensory stimulations. This raises a series of puzzles whose common theme concerns a potential misfit between this bedrock informationtheoretic vision and familiar facts about the attractions of the unexpected. We humans often seem to actively seek out surprising events, deliberately harvesting novel and exci…Read more
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146As Ruben notes, the macrostrategy can allow that the distinction may also be drawn at some micro level, but it insists that descent to the micro level is ...
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298Andy Clark cognitive complexity and the sensorimotor frontierAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 80 (1). 2006.
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16Extended Epistemology (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2018.One of the most important research programmes in contemporary cognitive science is that of extended cognition, whereby features of a subject's cognitive environment can in certain conditions become constituent parts of the cognitive process itself. The aim of this volume is to explore the epistemological ramifications of this idea.... The first part of the volume explores foundational issues with regard to an extended epistemology, including from a critical perspective. The second part of the vo…Read more
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61Situated cognition: Letting nature take its courseIn M. Aydede & P. Robbins (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition, Cambridge University Press. 2006.
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27Acknowledgement of external reviewers for 2002Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 2 (95): 151-152. 2003.
Andy Clark
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