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190Neuroscience and Philosophy: Brain, Mind, and Language (edited book)Columbia University Press. 2007."Neuroscience and Philosophy" begins with an excerpt from "Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience," in which Maxwell Bennett and Peter Hacker question the ...
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34In the Beginning, there was Darwin Darwin's Dangerous IdeaPhilosophical Books 38 (2): 081-092. 1997.
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25Content and consciousness: Reply to Arbib and GundersonJournal of Philosophy 69 (18): 604. 1972.
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76Stability is not intrinsicBehavioral and Brain Sciences 22 (1): 153-154. 1999.A pure vehicle theory of the contents of consciousness is not possible. While it is true that hard-wired tacit representations are insufficient as content-vehicles, not all tacit representations are hard-wired. The definition of stability offered for patterns of neural activation is not well-motivated, and too simplistic. We disagree in particular with the assumption that stability within a network is purely intrinsic to that network. Many complex forms of stability within a network are apparent…Read more
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University of VermontRegular Faculty
Burlington, Vermont, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |