The idea that human cognition is, or can be understood as, a form of computation is a useful
conceptual tool for cognitive science. It was a foundational assumption during the birth of …

Summary The Computational Theory of Mind says that the mind is a computing system. It
has a long history going back to the idea that thought is a kind of computation. Its modern …

In this paper, we argue that several recent 'wide'perspectives on cognition (embodied,
embedded, extended, enactive, and distributed) are only partially relevant to the study of …

Our objective in this paper is twofold: first, we intend to address the tenability of the enactivist
middle way between realism and idealism, as it is proposed in The Embodied Mind. We do …

Basic Emotion Theory, or BET, has dominated the affective sciences for decades (,,;;;). It has
been highly influential, driving a number of empirical lines of research (eg, in the context of …

In this paper, I argue that computationalism is a progressive research tradition. Its
metaphysical assumptions are that nervous systems are computational, and that information …

Enactivism advances an understanding of cognition rooted in the dynamic interaction
between an embodied agent and their environment, whilst new mechanism suggests that …

In the 70 years since Alan Turing's 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence'appeared in
Mind, there have been two widely-accepted interpretations of the Turing test: the canonical …

Cognitive science is generally billed as a representational science of mind, through and
through. The textbooks tell us that mainstream cognitive science is firmly if not foundationally …

Some philosophers search for the mark of the cognitive: a set of individually necessary and
jointly sufficient conditions identifying all instances of cognition. They claim that the mark of …