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102Mind as processIn F.G. Riffert & Marcel Weber (eds.), Searching for New Contrasts, Vienna: Peter Lang. pp. 285-294. 2002.assumptions about the phenomena of interest with process models. Thus, phlogiston has been replaced by combustion, caloric by random thermal motion, and vital fluid by far- from-equilibrium self-reproducing organizations of process. The most significant exceptions to this historical pattern are found in studies of the mind. Here, substance assumptions are still ubiquitous, ranging from models of representation to those of emotions to personality and psychopathology. Substance assumptions do pern…Read more
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25Why believe in beliefs?Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (1): 100-101. 2004.A central pillar of Carpendale & Lewis's (C&L's) argument is Wittgenstein's later work on language. I suggest that this support is not as strong as might be wished, and offer an alternative approach to their conclusion that language learning, especially of folk psychology, involves a socially embedded constructivism.
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262The interactivist modelSynthese 166 (3). 2009.A shift from a metaphysical framework of substance to one of process enables an integrated account of the emergence of normative phenomena. I show how substance assumptions block genuine ontological emergence, especially the emergence of normativity, and how a process framework permits a thermodynamic-based account of normative emergence. The focus is on two foundational forms of normativity, that of normative function and of representation as emergent in a particular kind of function. This proc…Read more
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1Automata Theory, Artificial Intelligence and Genetic EpistemologyRevue Internationale de Philosophie 36 (4): 549. 1982.
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210Some notes on internal and external relations and representationConsciousness and Emotion 4 (1): 101-110. 2003.Internal relations are those relations that are intrinsic to the nature of one or more of the relata. They are a kind of essential relation, rather than an essential property. For example, an arc of a circle is internally related to the center of that circle in the sense that
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137In this paper I wish to address the question of the nature of psychopathology. It might naturally be felt that we already know a great deal about psychopathology, and thus that such a paper would be primarily a review and discussion of the literature; I will argue, however, that the most fundamental form of the question concerning the nature of psychopathology is rarely posed in the literature, that it is prevented from being posed by presuppositions inherent in standard theoretical approaches, …Read more
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61Knowing levels and the child's understanding of mindBehavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (1): 33-34. 1993.
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23Interactive knowing: The metaphysics of intentionalityIn Roberto Poli & Johanna Seibt (eds.), Theory and Applications of Ontology: Philosophical Perspectives, Springer Verlag. pp. 207--229. 2010.
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83Troubles with computationalismIn W. O'Donahue & Richard F. Kitchener (eds.), The Philosophy of Psychology, Sage Publications. pp. 173--183. 1996.
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227EmergenceIn P.B. Andersen, Claus Emmeche, N.O. Finnemann & P.V. Christiansen (eds.), Downward Causation, University of Aarhus Press. pp. 322-348. 2000.* This paper was to have been written jointly with Don Campbell. His tragic death on May 6, 1996, occurred before we had been able to do much planning for the paper. As a result, this is undoubtedly a very different paper than if Don and I had written it together, and, undoubtedly, not as good a paper. Nevertheless, I believe it maintains at least the spirit of what we had discussed. Clearly, all errors are mine alone
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