Mapping Content: Why Cognitive Maps are Non-conceptual Mental States
By Arieh Schwartz (London School of Economics) and Nir Fresco (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Abstract Cognitive maps play a crucial role in mammalian navigation. They provide the organism with information about its own location and the locations of landmarks within known environments. Cognitive maps have yet to receive ample attention in philosophy. In this…
On a New Content Indeterminacy Problem in Neuroscience
By Caitlin MaceDepartment of History and Philosophy of ScienceUniversity of Pittsburgh Find Caitlin’s recently published paper in Philosophical Psychology here. Abstract Whether neurons represent or play a mere causal role is a foundational issue in philosophy of neuroscience. Evidence that neurons perform a representational role is weakened by the possibility of explaining experimental results by…
Epistemic reduction of the concept of ‘decision’
Epistemic reduction of the concept of ‘decision’By: Daniel Burnston (Tulane University) Abstract: “Reduction” is a widely rejected view of how commonsense psychological notions relate to neuroscience. I argue that there is a particular view of reduction on which reduction of the key commonsense concept of ‘decision’ is a live option. In particular, I advance a…
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