Cognitive neuroscience seeks to explain mind, brain, and behavior. But how do we generate
explanations? In this integrative theoretical paper, we review the commitments of the 'New …

Mainstream cognitive neuroscience aims to build mechanistic explanations of behavior by
mapping abilities described at the organismal level via the subpersonal level of computation …

An exciting, new framework for interpreting the philosophical significance of neuroscience.
All science needs to simplify, but when the object of research is something as complicated …

The rapid development and widespread adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies
have made the development of AI-specific design methods an important topic to advance. In …

The mechanistic framework traditionally comes bundled with a multi-level view. Some
ascribe ontological weight to these levels, whereas others claim that characterising a higher …

Double dissociations between perceivable colors and physical properties of colored objects
have led many philosophers to endorse relationalist accounts of color. I argue that there are …

Episodic memory is a mental state in which the subject has an imagistic representation of
some event from his or her personal past. Such representation is usually rich in perceptual …

My dissertation introduces a new account of multiple realization called 'engineered multiple
realization'and applies it to cases of artificial intelligence research in computational …

The main purpose of the series is to provide a publication platform to young researchers
working in Europe, who will thus be encouraged to publish in English and make their work …

Among the philosophical approaches to explanation in the biological and biomedical
sciences, the so-called mechanistic approach has doubtless been the subject of the widest …