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344Genic representation: Reconciling content and causal complexityBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 50 (1): 103-135. 1999.Some recent cognitive-scientific research suggests that a considerable amount of intelligent action is generated not by the systematic activity of internal representations, but by complex interactions involving neural, bodily, and environmental factors. Following an analysis of this threat to representational explanation, we pursue an analogy between the role of genes in the production of biological form and the role of neural states in the production of behaviour, in order to develop a notion o…Read more
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43Is language the ultimate artifact?Language Sciences 26 (6): 688-710. 2004.Andy Clark has argued that language is “in many ways the ultimate artifact” (Clark 1997, p.218). Fuelling this conclusion is a view according to which the human brain is essentially no more than a patterncompleting device, while language is an external resource which is adaptively fitted to the human brain in such a way that it enables that brain to exceed its unaided (pattern-completing) cognitive capacities, in much the same way as a pair of scissors enables us to “exploit our basic manipulati…Read more
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109Evolutionary psychology's grain problem and the cognitive neuroscience of reasoningIn David E. Over (ed.), Evolution and the Psychology of Thinking: The Debate, Psychology Press. pp. 61--99. 2003.
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Northern Illinois UniversityGraduate student
DeKalb, Illinois, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Language |