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    Out of our expectations. Interview with Alva Noë
    with Piotr Momot, Anna Karczmarczyk, Alva Noë, and Witold Wachowski
    Avant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 2 (1): 45-57. 2011.
    A significant impediment to the study of perceptual consciousness is our dependence on simplistic ideas about what experience is like. This is a point that has been made by Wittgenstein, and by philosophers working in the Phenomenological Tradition, such as Husserl and Merleau-Ponty. Importantly, it is an observation that has been brought to the fore in recent discussions of consciousness among philosophers and cognitive scientists who have come to feel the need for a more rigorous phenomenology…Read more
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    Phantom body as bodily self-consciousness
    Avant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 2 (1): 135-149. 2011.
    In the article, I propose that the body phantom is a phenomenal and functional model of one’s own body. This model has two aspects. On the one hand, it functions as a tacit sensory representation of the body that is at the same time related to the motor aspects of body functioning. On the other hand, it also has a phenomenal aspect as it constitutes the content of conscious bodily experience. This sort of tacit, functional and sensory model is related to the spatial parameters of the physical bo…Read more
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    Fantom ciała jako cielesna samoświadomość
    Avant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 1 (1): 225-246. 2010.
    According to Peter Halligan, […] it is important to consider that the experience of our body is largely the product of a continuously updated „phantom” generated by the brain. (Halligan 2002, 266). Next, he adds: I will argue (not withstanding pathology to the physical body) that the prevalent common sense assumption of phantom experience as pathological is wrongheaded and largely based on a long-standing and pernicious folk assumption that the physical body is necessary for experience of a body…Read more
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    The Emulating Interview… with Rick Grush
    with Rick Grush
    Avant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 1 (1): 213-224. 2010.
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    Atlas poznawczy: W stronę fundamentów wiedzy w neurokognitywistyce
    with Russell A. Poldrack, Aniket Kittur, Donald Kalar, Eric MillerI, Christian Seppa, Yolanda Gil, Stott D. Parker, Fred W. Sabb, and Robert M. Bilder
    Avant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 7 (3): 75-100. 2016.
    Cognitive neuroscience aims to map mental processes onto brain function, which begs the question of what “mental processes” exist and how they relate to the tasks that are used to manipulate and measure them. This topic has been addressed informally in prior work, but we propose that cumulative progress in cognitive neuroscience requires a more systematic approach to representing the mental entities that are being mapped to brain function and the tasks used to manipulate and measure mental proce…Read more
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    In this paper, we defend a novel, multidimensional account of representational unification, which we distinguish from integration. The dimensions of unity are simplicity, generality and scope, non-monstrosity, and systematization. In our account, unification is a graded property. The account is used to investigate the issue of how research traditions contribute to representational unification, focusing on embodied cognition in cognitive science. Embodied cognition contributes to unification even…Read more
  • The focus of this special issue of Theory & Psychology is on explanatory mechanisms in psychology, especially on problems of particular prominence for psychological science such as theoretical integration and unification. Proponents of the framework of mechanistic explanation claim, in short, that satisfactory explanations in psychology and related fields are causal. They stress the importance of explaining phenomena by describing mechanisms that are responsible for them, in particular by elucid…Read more
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    Interdyscyplinarne perspektywy rozwoju, integracji i zastosowań ontologii poznawczych
    with Janna Hastings, Gwen Frishkoff, Barry Smith, Mark Jensen, Russell Poldrack, Jane Lomax, Anita Bandrowski, Fahim Imam, Jessica Turner, and Maryann Martone
    Avant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 7 (3): 101-117. 2016.
    We discuss recent progress in the development of cognitive ontologies and summarize three challenges in the coordinated development and application of these resources. Challenge 1 is to adopt a standardized definition for cognitive processes. We describe three possibilities and recommend one that is consistent with the standard view in cognitive and biomedical sciences. Challenge 2 is harmonization. Gaps and conflicts in representation must be resolved so that these resources can be combined for…Read more