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90Sensorimotor skills and perception: Cognitive complexity and the sensorimotor frontierAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 80 43-65. 2006.[Andy Clark] What is the relation between perceptual experience and the suite of sensorimotor skills that enable us to act in the very world we perceive? The relation, according to 'sensorimotor models' (O'Regan and Noë 2001, Noë 2004) is tight indeed. Perceptual experience, on these accounts, is enacted via skilled sensorimotor activity, and gains its content and character courtesy of our knowledge of the relations between (typically) movement and sensory stimulation. I shall argue that this fo…Read more
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45Commentary on J.K O’Regan and A Noe: A sensorimotor account of vision and visual consciousnessBehavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (5): 979-980. 2001.O'Regan and Noe present a wonderfully detailed and comprehensive defense of a position whose broad outline we absolutely and unreservedly endorse. They are right, it seems to us, to stress the intimacy of conscious content and embodied action, and to counter the idea of a Grand Illusion with the image of an agent genuinely in touch, via active exploration, with the rich and varied visual scene. This is an enormously impressive achievement, and we hope that the comments that follow will be.
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64“Sensorimotor Chauvinism?” Commentary on O'Reagan, J. Kevin and Noë, Alva, “A Sensorimotor account of vision and Visual Consciousness”Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (5): 979-980. 2001.While applauding the bulk of the account on offer, we question one apparent implication viz, that every difference in sensorimotor contingencies corresponds to a difference in conscious visual experience.
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1Moving minds: re-thinking representation in the heat of situated actionPhilosophical Perspectives 9 89-104. 1995.
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147This is an amended version of material that first appeared in A. Clark, Microcognition: Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and Parallel Distributed Processing (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1989), Ch. 1, 2, and 6. It appears in German translation in Metzinger,T (Ed) DAS LEIB-SEELE-PROBLEM IN DER ZWEITEN HELFTE DES 20 JAHRHUNDERTS (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. 1999)
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164Trading spaces: Computation, representation, and the limits of uninformed learningBehavioral and Brain Sciences 20 (1): 57-66. 1997.Some regularities enjoy only an attenuated existence in a body of training data. These are regularities whose statistical visibility depends on some systematic recoding of the data. The space of possible recodings is, however, infinitely large type-2 problems. they are standardly solved! This presents a puzzle. How, given the statistical intractability of these type-2 cases, does nature turn the trick? One answer, which we do not pursue, is to suppose that evolution gifts us with exactly the rig…Read more
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137Embodied, embedded, and extended cognitionIn Keith Frankish & William Ramsey (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Science, Cambridge University Press. pp. 275. 2012.
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58Strange inversions: prediction and the explanation of conscious experienceIn Bryce Huebner (ed.), The Philosophy of Daniel Dennett, Oup Usa. pp. 202-218. 2018.Strange inversions occur when things work in ways that turn received wisdom upside down. Hume offered a strangely inverted story about causation, and Darwin, about apparent design. Dennett suggests that a strange inversion also occurs when we project our own reactive complexes outward, painting our world with elusive properties like cuteness, sweetness, blueness, sexiness, funniness, and more. Such properties strike us as experiential causes, but they are really effects—a kind of shorthand for w…Read more
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Connectionism: the structure beneath the symbolsIn Raymond Tallis & Howard Robinson (eds.), The Pursuit of mind, Carcanet. pp. 129. 1992.
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Dealing in futures: Folk psychology and the role of representations in cognitive scienceIn Robert N. McCauley (ed.), The Churchlands and their critics, Blackwell. 1996.
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194Bayesing Qualia: Consciousness as Inference, Not Raw DatumJournal of Consciousness Studies 26 (9-10): 19-33. 2019.The meta-problem of consciousness (Chalmers, 2018) is the problem of explaining the behaviours and verbal reports that we associate with the so-called 'hard problem of consciousness'. These may include reports of puzzlement, of the attractiveness of dualism, of explanatory gaps, and the like. We present and defend a solution to the meta-problem. Our solution takes as its starting point the emerging picture of the brain as a hierarchical inference engine. We show why such a device, operating unde…Read more
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21Socially Extended Epistemology (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2018.This volume explores the epistemology of distributed cognition, the idea that groups of people can generate cognitive systems that consist of all participating members. Can distributed cognitive systems generate knowledge in a similar way to individuals? If so, how does this kind of knowledge differ from normal, individual knowledge?
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70Extended Epistemology (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2018.Extended Cognition examines the way in which features of a subject's cognitive environment can become constituent parts of the cognitive process itself. This volume explores the epistemological ramifications of this idea, bringing together academics from a variety of different areas, to investigate the very idea of an extended epistemology.
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9Machines and Thought: The Legacy of Alan Turing, Volume 1 (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 1996.This is the first of two volumes of essays in commemoration of Alan Turing, whose pioneering work in the theory of artificial intelligence and computer science continues to be widely discussed today. A group of prominent academics from a wide range of disciplines focus on three questions famously raised by Turing: What, if any, are the limits on machine `thinking'? Could a machine be genuinely intelligent? Might we ourselves be biological machines, whose thought consists essentially in nothing m…Read more
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111Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive ScienceOxford University Press USA. 2001.Ranging across both standard philosophical territory and the landscape of cutting-edge cognitive science, Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Second Edition, is a vivid and engaging introduction to key issues, research, and opportunities in the field.Starting with the vision of mindware as software and debates between realists, instrumentalists, and eliminativists, Andy Clark takes students on a no-holds-barred journey through connectionism, dynamical systems, and r…Read more
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2Connectionism, Concepts, and Folk Psychology: The Legacy of Alan Turing, Volume 2 (edited book)Clarendon Press. 1996.This is the second of two volumes of essays in commemoration of Alan Turing, who pioneered computing theory in the middle of this century. A distinguished international cast of contributors offer original investigations of key theories in contemporary philosophy of mind and cognitive science, celebrating Turing's intellectual legacy in these fields. All essays are specially written for this volume.
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3Cognitive Architectures in Artificial Intelligence: The Evolution of Research Programs (edited book)Routledge. 1998.First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
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15Language and Meaning in Cognitive Science: Cognitive Issues and Semantic Theory (edited book)Routledge. 1998.First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
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77Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied MindOxford University Press USA. 2015.How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel, create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all these non-material mental states, including consciousness itself? An answer to this central question of our existence is emerging at the busy intersection of neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence, and robotics.In this groundbreaking work, philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark explores exciting n…Read more
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19Machine Intelligence: Perspectives on the Computational Model (edited book)Routledge. 1998.This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory.
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The Varieties of EliminativismSchool of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex. 1992.
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7Machines and Thought: The Legacy of Alan Turing, Volume I (edited book)Clarendon Press. 1996.This is the first of two volumes of essays on the intellectual legacy of Alan Turing, whose pioneering work in artificial intelligence and computer science made him one of the seminal thinkers of the century. A distinguished international cast of contributors focus on the three famous ideas associated with his name: the Turing test, the Turing machine, and the Church-Turing thesis. 'a fascinating series of essays on computation by contributors in many fields' Choice
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Connectionism, Concepts, and Folk Psychology: The Legacy of Alan Turing, Volume Ii (edited book)Clarendon Press. 1999.This is the second of two volumes of essays on the ideas of Alan Turing, whose pioneering work in artificial intelligence and computer science made him one of the seminal thinkers of the century. A distinguished international cast of contributors offer original investigations of key issues in contemporary philosophy of mind and cognitive science, celebrating Turing's intellectual legacy in these fields. 'fascinating...we can all learn by reading these essays because they encourage us to explore …Read more