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Ruth Garrett Millikan
Ruth Garrett Millikan presents a highly original account of cognition - of how we get to grips with the world in thought. The question at the heart of her book is Kant's'How is knowledge possible?', but answered from a contemporary naturalist standpo
Autor:
Daniel Povinelli
In every domain of reasoning-from time and space, to mental states and physical illness-humans deploy an exceedingly diverse range of intuitive'theories'about how the world works. Children from diverse cultures always seem to arrive at a few, common
Autor:
Nick Braisby, Angus Gellatly
Cognitive processes enable us to experience the world around us: to recognise a friendly face in a crowd, to communicate our passions, to recall memories from the past. When these processes stop working, it can turn friends into strangers, render spe
What cognitive abilities underpin the use of tools, and how are tools and their properties represented or understood by tool-users? Does the study of tool use provide us with a unique or distinctive source of information about the causal cognition of
Autor:
Robert Cummins
The World in the Head collects the best of Robert Cummins'papers on mental representation and psychological explanation. Running through these papers are a pair of themes: that explaining the mind requires functional analysis, not subsumption under'p
Autor:
Marc Jeannerod
Our ability to acknowledge and recognise our own identity - our'self'- is a characteristic doubtless unique to humans. Where does this feeling come from? How does the combination of neurophysiological processes coupled with our interaction with the o
What are the fundamental mechanisms of decision making, processing speed, memory and cognitive control? How do these give rise to individual differences, and how do they change as people age? How are these mechanisms implemented in neural unctions, i
Autor:
Clemens Wöllner, Justin London
Music and dance can change our sense of time. Both rely on synchronizing our attention and actions with sounds and with other people, both involve memory and expectation, and both can give rise to experiences of flow and pleasure. Performing Time exp
Autor:
Tillmann Vierkant
Epistemic agency is a crucial concept in many different areas of philosophy and the cognitive sciences. It is crucial in dual process theories of cognition as well as theories of metacognition and mindreading, self-control, and moral agency. But what
Autor:
Fergus Craik
Memory is typically thought of as a set of neural representations -'memory traces'- that must be found and reactivated in order to be experienced. It is often suggested that'memory traces'are represented by a hierarchically organized system of analyz