Neuroscientists often describe neural activity as a representation of something, or claim to
have found evidence for a neural representation, but there is considerable ambiguity about …

An extended argument that cognitive phenomena—perceiving, imagining, remembering—
can be best explained in terms of an interface between contentless and content-involving …

The complex systems approach to cognitive science invites a new understanding of
extended cognitive systems. According to this understanding, extended cognitive systems …

This essay addresses Cartesian duality and how its implicit dialectic might be repaired using
physics and information theory. Our agenda is to describe a key distinction in the physical …

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 …

Could a machine think? Could the mind itself be a thinking machine? The computer
revolution transformed discussion of these questions, offering our best prospects yet for …

A defense of the computational explanation of cognition that relies on mechanistic
philosophy of science and advocates for explanatory pluralism. In this book, Marcin …

After an introductory section, this article will focus on four questions: How should the Kyoto
School be defined? What is meant by its central philosophical concept of “absolute …

Intentionality is the mind's ability to be" of,"" about," or" directed" at things, or to" say"
something. For example, a thought might" say" that grass is green or that Santa Claus is …

Computation and information processing are among the most fundamental notions in
cognitive science. They are also among the most imprecisely discussed. Many cognitive …