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237Mind as Machine: The Influence of Mechanism on the Conceptual Foundations of the Computer MetaphorRUDN Journal of Philosophy 26 (4): 755-769. 2022.his article will focus on the mechanistic origins of the computer metaphor, which forms the conceptual framework for the methodology of the cognitive sciences, some areas of artificial intelligence and the philosophy of mind. The connection between the history of computing technology, epistemology and the philosophy of mind is expressed through the metaphorical dictionaries of the philosophical discourse of a particular era. The conceptual clarification of this connection and the substantiation …Read more
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5Extension of Critical Programs of the Computational Theory of MindFilozofia i Nauka. Studia Filozoficzne I Interdyscyplinarne 10 263-274. 2022.Technological advances in computer science have secured the computer metaphor status of a heuristic methodological tool used to answer the question about the nature of mind. Nevertheless, some philosophers strongly support opposite opinions. Anti-computationalism in the philosophy of mind is a methodological program that uses extremely heterogeneous grounds for argumentation, deserving analysis and discussion. This article provides an overview and interpretation of the traditional criticism of t…Read more
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5Semantics of Judgments about Interoceptive ExperienceEpistemology and Philosophy of Science 59 (2): 218-233. 2022.The linguistic representation of interoceptive sensations is valuable not only for the study of cognitive processes, but also for conceptual analysis within the framework of the phenomenal approach in the philosophy of mind. This article focuses on the deep linguistic mechanisms of metaphorical conceptualization of corporeality and their relationship with various classes of judgments expressing awareness of internal bodily experience. Interoceptive sensations are associated with the representati…Read more
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8Extension of Critical Programs of the Computational Theory of MindFilozofia i Nauka 10 263-274. 2022.Technological advances in computer science have secured the computer metaphor status of a heuristic methodological tool used to answer the question about the nature of mind. Nevertheless, some philosophers strongly support opposite opinions. Anti-computationalism in the philosophy of mind is a methodological program that uses extremely heterogeneous grounds for argumentation, deserving analysis and discussion. This article provides an overview and interpretation of the traditional criticism of t…Read more
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254Connectionist models of mind: scales and the limits of machine imitationPhilosophical Problems of IT and Cyberspace 2 (19): 42-58. 2020.This paper is devoted to some generalizations of explanatory potential of connectionist approaches to theoretical problems of the philosophy of mind. Are considered both strong, and weaknesses of neural network models. Connectionism has close methodological ties with modern neurosciences and neurophilosophy. And this fact strengthens its positions, in terms of empirical naturalistic approaches. However, at the same time this direction inherits weaknesses of computational approach, and in this ca…Read more
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3Difficult Points of Chess Metaphor in the Theoretical Questions of Language and MindEpistemology and Philosophy of Science 58 (2): 95-112. 2021.This review article reveals the structural components of the chess metaphor, which represent in an unusual perspective the properties of a linguistic sign and its connection with mental processes. Strict rule-following and the conventionality of the material plane of expression turn chess into a convenient illustration of a universal linguistic structure. Particular attention is paid to the computer profile of the chess metaphor, since it reflects a whole complex of philosophical problems of com…Read more
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55Critics of Computationalism and semantic aspects of phenomenal consciousnessPhilosphical Probllems of IT and Cyberspace 12 (2): 14-30. 2017.This article focuses on the methodological basis for the criticism of the computationalism and “computer metaphor” in the philosophy of cognitive sciences. We suppose that the computational paradigm is the direct consequence of the theoretical confusion of phenomenal and cognitive kinds of experience. Cognitive processes, considered as the forms of computational description, are available for computer modelling. That implies the strong position of the computer metaphor in the neuroscience. In ou…Read more
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47Cognitive linguistics and philosophy of mindEpistemology and Philosophy of Science 50 (4): 119-134. 2016.This paper is aimed to analyze some grounds bridging the explanatory gap in philosophy of mind and linguistic sign theory. It's noted that the etymological ties between the notions of “consciousness", “cognition", “sign" are emphasized in the works on cognitive linguistics. This connection rises from the understanding of the symbolic nature of consciousness and the sign of semiosis as the key cognitive process. On the one hand, it is impossible to realize the communication procedures, knowledge,…Read more
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659Information, meaning and sense Iin the linguistic process of consciousnessRivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio. 2012.In this article the linguistic processes of consciousness are discussed at the informational and semantic levels. The key question is devoted to the distinction between the information, meaning and sense in the physical, logico-semantic and historic levels of brain and consciousness. The principal point runs that the human linguistic process of sense producing takes the variety and indistinctness in the cultural presupposition. The modern theories of philosophy of mind relying on the theories …Read more
Pavel Baryshnikov
Pyatigorsk State University
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Pyatigorsk State UniversityProfessor
Пятигорск, Ставропольский край, Russian Federation
Areas of Specialization
Theories of Consciousness |
Science of Consciousness |
Perception |
Epistemology of Mind |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |