Philosophy of Mind & Neuroscience
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Carl Craver: Memory, Time and Agency
Carl Craver: Memory, Time and Agency
ABSTRACT Individuals with episodic amnesia and deficits in episodic future projection are frequently described as trapped in an eternal present or bound to stimuli in the here and now. I argue that individuals with medial temporal lobe damage and deficits in these capacities nonetheless retain much of their orientation in time and much of their […]
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Carl Craver: Ontic Basis of Network Explanation
Carl Craver: Ontic Basis of Network Explanation
ABSTRACT Network models are increasingly used across the sciences to describe complex relations among a number of individual actors. Philosophers enamored of this modeling approach claim to find in it evidence for non-causal, distinctively mathematical, or non-decompositional explanations. Using examples from contemporary resting state fMRI research, I show that this philosophical work in general misunderstands […]
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Rotman 2016 Annual Conference: Rethinking the Taxonomy of Psychology
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION This workshop focused on an emerging research project in the cognitive neurosciences wherein the traditional scientific approach of using psychological investigations to enhance our understanding of the brain has been flipped, and instead scientists are using neuroscientific investigations to challenge and change the conceptual foundations of psychology. Specifically, it has become possible, using […]