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    Editorial Introduction: Representing Ourselves: Reflexive Approaches to the Function of Consciousness
    with N. Takuya and R. Perera
    Journal of Consciousness Studies 26 (3-4): 8-16. 2019.
    This special issue of Journal of Consciousness Studies brings together work from a range of philosophers, neuroscientists, psychologists, cognitive scientists, behavioural scientists, and computer scientists who are all united in their approach to answering questions about consciousness. The contributions to this journal are inspired by work presented at the inaugural Designed Mind Symposium, held at the University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum on 7-8 November 2017.
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    Review of An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics (review)
    Philosophia Mathematica 23 (2): 281-288. 2015.
    In An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics Franklin develops a tantalizing alternative to Platonist and nominalist approaches by arguing that at least some mathematical universals exist in the physical realm and are knowable through ordinary methods of access to physical reality. By offering a third option that lies between these extreme all-or-nothing approaches and by rejecting the ‘dichotomy of objects into abstract and concrete’, Franklin provides potential solutions to many of the…Read more
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    What are we doing when we perceive numbers?
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 44. 2021.
    Clarke and Beck rightly contend that the number sense allows us to directly perceive number. However, they unnecessarily assume a representationalist approach and incur a heavy theoretical cost by invoking “modes of presentation.” We suggest that the relevant evidence is better explained by adopting a radical enactivist approach that avoids characterizing the approximate number system as a system for representing number.
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    Correction to: Numerals and neural reuse
    Synthese 197 (9): 3683-3683. 2020.
    The original publication contained an incorrect copyright holder.
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    Volume 33, Issue 5, July 2020, Page 772-775.
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    The rationale of rationalization
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 43. 2019.
    While we agree in broad strokes with the characterisation of rationalization as a “useful fiction,” we think that Fiery Cushman's claim remains ambiguous in two crucial respects: the reality of beliefs and desires, that is, the fictional status of folk-psychological entities and the degree to which they should be understood as useful. Our aim is to clarify both points and explicate the rationale of rationalization.
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    Numerals and neural reuse
    Synthese 197 (9): 3657-3681. 2020.
    Menary OpenMIND, MIND Group, Frankfurt am Main, 2015) has argued that the development of our capacities for mathematical cognition can be explained in terms of enculturation. Our ancient systems for perceptually estimating numerical quantities are augmented and transformed by interacting with a culturally-enriched environment that provides scaffolds for the acquisition of cognitive practices, leading to the development of a discrete number system for representing number precisely. Numerals and t…Read more
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    High-resolution 7t fMRI of human hippocampal subfields during associative learning
    with N. A. Suthana, M. Donix, D. R. Wozny, A. Bazih, R. M. Heidemann, R. Trampel, A. D. Ekstrom, M. Scharf, B. Knowlton, R. Turner, and S. Y. Bookheimer
    © 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Examining the function of individual human hippocampal subfields remains challenging because of their small sizes and convoluted structures. Previous human fMRI studies at 3 T have successfully detected differences in activation between hippo-campal cornu ammonis field CA1, combined CA2, CA3, and dentate gyrus region, and the subiculum during associative memory tasks. In this study, we investigated hippocampal subfield activity in healthy participants…Read more
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    Number concepts for the concept empiricist
    Philosophical Psychology 29 (3): 334-348. 2016.
    Dove and Machery both argue that recent findings about the nature of numerical representation present problems for Concept Empiricism. I shall argue that, whilst this evidence does challenge certain versions of CE, such as Prinz, it needn’t be seen as problematic to the general CE approach. Recent research can arguably be seen to support a CE account of number concepts. Neurological and behavioral evidence suggests that systems involved in the perception of numerical properties are also implicat…Read more
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    In his paper, Jakob Hohwy outlines a theory of the brain as an organ for prediction-error minimization, which he claims has the potential to profoundly alter our understanding of mind and cognition. One manner in which our understanding of the mind is altered, according to PEM, stems from the neurocentric conception of the mind that falls out of the framework, which portrays the mind as “inferentially-secluded” from its environment. This in turn leads Hohwy to reject certain theses of embodied c…Read more
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