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11Markov blankets: Realism and our ontological commitmentsBehavioral and Brain Sciences 45. 2022.The authors argue that their target is orthogonal to the realism and instrumentalist debate. I argue that it is born directly from it. While the distinction is helpful in illuminating how some ontological commitments demand a theory of implementation, it's less clear whether different views cleanly map onto the epistemic and metaphysical uses defined in the paper.
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320Realism and instrumentalism in Bayesian cognitive scienceIn Tony Cheng, Ryoji Sato & Jakob Hohwy (eds.), Expected Experiences: The Predictive Mind in an Uncertain World, Routledge. 2024.There are two distinct approaches to Bayesian modelling in cognitive science. Black-box approaches use Bayesian theory to model the relationship between the inputs and outputs of a cognitive system without reference to the mediating causal processes; while mechanistic approaches make claims about the neural mechanisms which generate the outputs from the inputs. This paper concerns the relationship between these two approaches. We argue that the dominant trend in the philosophical literature, whi…Read more
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422Markov blankets: Realism and our ontological commitmentsBehavioral and Brain Sciences 45. 2022.The authors argue that their target is orthogonal to the realism and instrumentalist debate. I argue that it is born directly from it. While the distinction is helpful in illuminating how some ontological commitments demand a theory of implementation, it's less clear whether different views cleanly map onto the epistemic and metaphysical uses defined in the paper.
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Washington University in St. LouisPsychological & Brain Sciences
Department of PhilosophyPost-doctoral Fellow
APA Western Division
St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America