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70Cognitive ontology and the search for neural mechanisms: three foundational problemsSynthese 200 (5): 1-22. 2022.The central task of cognitive neuroscience to map cognitive capacities to neural mechanisms faces three interlocking conceptual problems that together frame the problem of cognitive ontology. First, they must establish which tasks elicit which cognitive capacities, and specifically when different tasks elicit the same capacity. To address this operationalization problem, scientists often assess whether the tasks engage the same neural mechanisms. But to determine whether mechanisms are of the sa…Read more
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24De Nieuwe NeurofilosofieAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 111 (3): 299-309. 2019.The New Neurophilosophy: An Introduction to the ANTW special issue Contemporary neurophilosophy is more pragmatic than the early neurophilosophy of the 1980’s. It features two implicit ideas: First, commonsense cognitive concepts (CCC’s) like ‘free will’, ‘thoughts’, ‘consciousness’, ‘attention’ and ‘self’, belong to a variety of disciplines and cannot be appropriated by either philosophy or cognitive neuroscience. Second, the description of biological processes in the brain and the description …Read more
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16The Ethics of Counting Neural Activity as ProofAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 10 (1): 15-16. 2019.
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2Philosophy of mind, brain and behaviourBoom. 2015.In 'Philosophy of Mind, Brain and Behaviour' wordt het begrip 'cognitiefilosofie' voor het eerst in Nederland op de kaart gezet als een combinatie van de Angelsaksische en de fenomenologische philosophy of mind. Onderwerpen op het snijvlak van filosofie, sociale en neurowetenschappen komen aan bod, zoals sociale cognitie, persoonlijke identiteit, het lichaam-geestprobleem en theorieën over bewustzijn, emoties en vrije wil. Om een breed academisch publiek te bedienen, verschijnt dit boek in het E…Read more
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RepliekAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 113 (3): 413-426. 2021.Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community.
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1Groepsidentificatie en cognitieAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 113 (3): 331-361. 2021.Group-identification and cognition: Why trivial conventions are more important than we think In existing (evolutionary) explanations for group formation and -identification, the function of cultural conventions such as social etiquette and dress codes is limited to providing group-markers. Group formation and identification itself is explained in terms of less arbitrary and more substantial phenomena such as shared norms and institutions. In this paper I will argue that, however trivial and arbi…Read more
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35Explaining the Cultural Evolution of large-scale Collaboration: Conventionality as an Alternative for Collective IntentionalityReview of Philosophy and Psychology 1-21. forthcoming.The scalar notion of collective intentionality has been used to characterize the evolution of largely uncollaborative apes to highly collaborative ones. This proposal covers human evolution up until and including the formation of hunter-gather groups. But can collective intentionality also explain the emergence of complex societies? I argue that it cannot. Instead of collective intentionality, collaboration in complex societies hinges on a set of non-strategic attitudes and standardized human in…Read more
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1261Mineness without Minimal SelvesJournal of Consciousness Studies 21 (7-8): 193-219. 2014.In this paper we focus on what is referred to as the ‘mineness’ of experience, that is, the intimate familiarity we have with our own thoughts, perceptions, and emotions. Most accounts characterize mineness in terms of an experiential dimension, the first-person givenness of experience, that is subsumed under the notion of minimal self-consciousness or a ‘minimal self’. We argue that this account faces problems and develop an alternative account of mineness in terms of the coherence of experienc…Read more
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87Early Social Cognition: Alternatives to Implicit MindreadingReview of Philosophy and Psychology 2 (3): 499-517. 2011.According to the BD-model of mindreading, we primarily understand others in terms of beliefs and desires. In this article we review a number of objections against explicit versions of the BD-model, and discuss the prospects of using its implicit counterpart as an explanatory model of early emerging socio-cognitive abilities. Focusing on recent findings on so-called ‘implicit’ false belief understanding, we put forward a number of considerations against the adoption of an implicit BD-model. Final…Read more
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68Rethinking folk-psychology: Alternatives to theories of mindPhilosophical Explorations 11 (3). 2008.This Article does not have an abstract
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26Cultural Conventions as Group-MakersJournal of Cognition and Culture 22 (3-4): 203-219. 2022.In most literature on human cultural evolution and the emergence of large-scale cooperation, the main function of cultural conventions is described as providing group-markers. This paper argues that cultural conventions serve another purpose as well that is at least as important. Large-scale cooperation is characterized by complex division of labour and by a diversity of social roles associated with cultural institutions. This requires ubiquitous ‘role-interaction coordination’ – as it will be l…Read more
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16Causation in Self-ManagementPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 27 (4): 375-377. 2020.In his thoughtful commentary, De Bruin invites us to say more about the notion of causation in our two-dimensional model of self-management in health care. In particular, he thinks there is a tension between 1) self-management-as-facilitation being causally efficacious and 2) “surgical” self-management interventions on specific variables being practically impossible in psychiatric conditions due to their complex dynamic nature. In particular, he asks us: “How can we establish the causal efficacy…Read more
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25Self-Management in Psychiatry and Psychomatic Medicine—Part 2Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 27 (4): 329-332. 2020.This special issue is a follow-up on a previous issue in this journal on self-management in psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine. It is the concluding chapter of a research project that sought to unpack and develop the implications of an understanding of self-management in psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine as “management of the self.”Over the last, 20 years, self-management has gained a central place in treatment programs across various medical disciplines. It positions patients as “expert-…Read more
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12What Kind of "Management" Is Self-Management? A Two-Dimensional Approach to Self-Management in Mental Health CarePhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 27 (4): 355-370. 2020.ARRAY
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22From Notebooks to Institutions: The Case for Symbiotic CognitionFrontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.
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44A cognitive explanation of the perceived normativity of cultural conventionsMind and Language 36 (1): 62-80. 2019.I argue that cultural conventions such as social etiquette facilitate a specific (non‐Lewisian) kind of action coordination—role–interaction coordination—that is required for division of labour. Playing one's roles and coordinating them with those of others is a form of multitasking. Such multitasking is made possible on a large scale because we can offload cognition aimed at coordination onto a stable infrastructure of cultural conventions. Our natural tendency to prefer multitasking in instanc…Read more
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33Symbiotic cognition as an alternative for socially extended cognitionPhilosophical Psychology 32 (8): 1179-1203. 2019.1. Social institutions greatly enhance the cognitive reach and repertoire of humans. Legal systems, monetary systems, educational systems, and systems of cultural conventions, for example, allow us...
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23Two Distinctions That Help to Chart the Interplay Between Conscious and Unconscious VolitionFrontiers in Psychology 10 (552): 1--12. 2019.
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21Intentional content in psychopathologies requires an expanded interpretivismBehavioral and Brain Sciences 42. 2019.
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25The Kinds of Things: A Theory of Personal Identity Based on Transcendental ArgumentPhilosophical Review 107 (3): 465. 1998.The main target of The Kinds of Things is the Lockean-Humean view of personal identity that had its most controversial expression in Parfit and that so thoroughly shaped the debate on the issue. Doepke develops an alternative Kantian-Aristotelian account of personal identity, partly by analyzng the demerits of the Lockean-Humean view. While locating itself in the landscape of the traditional debate, though, the book is very atypical of it.
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6Tussen wetenschap en dagelijks levenAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 109 (2): 205-209. 2017.Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community.
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26The Kinds of Things (review)Philosophical Review 107 (3): 465-468. 1998.The main target of The Kinds of Things is the Lockean-Humean view of personal identity that had its most controversial expression in Parfit and that so thoroughly shaped the debate on the issue. Doepke develops an alternative Kantian-Aristotelian account of personal identity, partly by analyzng the demerits of the Lockean-Humean view. While locating itself in the landscape of the traditional debate, though, the book is very atypical of it.
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48The Model-Model of the Theory-TheoryInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 55 (5): 521-542. 2012.Abstract ?Theory of Mind? (ToM) is widely held to be ubiquitous in our navigation of the social world. Recently this standard view has been contested by phenomenologists and enactivists. Proponents of the ubiquity of ToM, however, accept and effectively neutralize the intuitions behind their arguments by arguing that ToM is mostly sub-personal. This paper proposes a similar move on behalf of the phenomenologists and enactivists: it offers a novel explanation of the intuition that ToM is ubiquito…Read more
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23Embodied Language Comprehension Requires an Enactivist Paradigm of CognitionFrontiers in Psychology 1. 2010.
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98Two conceptions of psychological continuityPhilosophical Explorations 1 (1). 1998.In this article, I develop and defend a conception of psychological continuity that differs from the 'orthodox' conception in terms of overlapping chains of strongly connected mental states. By recognizing the importance of the (narrative) interrelatedness of qualitatively dissimilar mental contents, as well as the role of the body in psychological continuity, I argue, serious problems confronting the orthodox view can be solved.
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56Two Improvements to the Intentional Stance Theory: Hutto and Satne on Naturalizing ContentPhilosophia 43 (3): 579-591. 2015.In this paper I assess the extent to which Daniel Dennett’s Intentional Stance Theory fits into the overall proposal for a programme on naturalizing mental content outlined by Daniel Hutto and Glenda Satne in this issue. I argue that in order to fit the proposal, two changes need to be made: the reality of intentional states should not be grounded in the reality of behavioral patterns but in the ascription-independent status of Ur-intentionality that is the at the root of all intentionality, inc…Read more
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63The Closest Continuer View RevisitedCroatian Journal of Philosophy 4 (3): 387-402. 2004.Many theories of personal identity allow for the metaphysical possibility of fission. In 1981 Nozick proposed a theory of personal identity called ‘the closest continuer view’ (CCV) that denies fission in the case of persons but allows fisson in the case of human beings. CCV may thus appear to reduce ‘person’ to a nonmetaphysical, practical notion. Against this I argue that CCV is an externalist metaphysical theory that purports to solve a problem that is insurmountable within the confines of an…Read more
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27The Narrative Practice Hypothesis and Externalist Theory Theory: For Compatibility, Against CollapseJournal of Consciousness Studies 16 (6-8): 6-8. 2009.What defence does the Narrative Practice Hypothesis have against the charge that it is a covert form of externalist theory theory ? I discuss and reject Dan Hutto's own strategies and argue that the NPH remains vulnerable to a threat of collapse into externalist TT as long as narrative folk-psychological explanation is differentiated from simple belief-desire explanation merely by a degree of complexity, subtlety and/or context-sensitivity. It is entirely plausible, however, that there is a more…Read more
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25Two claims that can save a nonreductive account of mental causationIn Human Action, Deliberation and Causation, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 225--248. 1998.