Collection
Neuroscience and Its Philosophy
- Submission status
- Closed
The Synthese Topical Collection on Neuroscience and Its Philosophy aims to publish some of the best work on the philosophy of neuroscience, broadly construed.
Editors
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Gualtiero Piccinini
Gualtiero Piccinini is Curators' Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Associate Director of the Center for Neurodynamics at the University of Missouri - St. Louis. In 2014, he received the Herbert A. Simon Award from the International Association for Computing and Philosophy. In 2018, he received the K. Jon Barwise Prize from the American Philosophical Association. His publications include Physical Computation: A Mechanistic Account (OUP 2015) and Neurocognitive Mechanisms: Explaining Biological Cognition (OUP 2020).
Articles (25 in this collection)
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Computational systems as higher-order mechanisms
Authors
- Jorge Ignacio Fuentes
- Content type: Original Research
- Published: 02 February 2024
- Article: 55
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Organized representations forming a computationally useful processing structure
Authors
- Nicholas Shea
- Content type: Original Research
- Open Access
- Published: 21 November 2023
- Article: 175
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Expecting pain
Authors
- Frederique de Vignemont
- Content type: Original Research
- Published: 02 November 2023
- Article: 156
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First-person constraints on dynamic-mechanistic explanations in neuroscience: The case of migraine and epilepsy models
Authors
- Marek Pokropski
- Piotr Suffczynski
- Content type: Original Research
- Open Access
- Published: 01 November 2023
- Article: 153
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Understanding the development and use of tools in neuroscience: the case of the tungsten micro-electrode
Authors
- Juan Manuel Garrido Wainer
- Content type: Original Research
- Published: 28 October 2022
- Article: 446
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On the role of contextual factors in cognitive neuroscience experiments: a mechanistic approach
Authors
- Abel Wajnerman-Paz
- Daniel Rojas-LÃbano
- Content type: Original Research
- Published: 21 September 2022
- Article: 402
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Mindreading, emotion-regulation, and oppression
Authors
- Maria Doulatova
- Content type: Original Research
- Published: 22 July 2022
- Article: 313
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Vertical-horizontal distinction in resolving the abstraction, hierarchy, and generality problems of the mechanistic account of physical computation
Authors
- Jesse Kuokkanen
- Content type: Original Research
- Open Access
- Published: 01 June 2022
- Article: 247
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Abductive reasoning in cognitive neuroscience: weak and strong reverse inference
Authors
- Fabrizio Calzavarini
- Gustavo Cevolani
- Content type: Original Research
- Published: 05 March 2022
- Article: 70
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Recognizing why vision is inferential
Authors
- J. Brendan Ritchie
- Content type: Original Research
- Published: 22 February 2022
- Article: 25
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Long-arm functional individuation of computation
Authors
- Nir Fresco
- Content type: Original Research
- Open Access
- Published: 01 November 2021
- Pages: 13993 - 14016
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Action control, forward models and expected rewards: representations in reinforcement learning
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- Anna-Mari Rusanen
- Otto Lappi
- Jami Pekkanen
- Content type: Original Research
- Open Access
- Published: 01 November 2021
- Pages: 14017 - 14033
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What eliminative materialism isn’t
Authors
- William M. Ramsey
- Content type: Original Research
- Published: 23 July 2021
- Pages: 11707 - 11728
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Tracers in neuroscience: Causation, constraints, and connectivity
Authors
- Lauren N. Ross
- Content type: Neuroscience and Its Philosophy
- Published: 06 January 2021
- Pages: 4077 - 4095
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Is absence of evidence of pain ever evidence of absence?
Authors
- Deborah J. Brown
- Brian Key
- Content type: Neuroscience and Its Philosophy
- Open Access
- Published: 05 January 2021
- Pages: 3881 - 3902
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Beyond the Platonic Brain: facing the challenge of individual differences in function-structure mapping
Authors
- Marco Viola
- Content type: Neuroscience and Its Philosophy
- Open Access
- Published: 24 September 2020
- Pages: 2129 - 2155
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Mental kinematics: dynamics and mechanics of neurocognitive systems
Authors
- David L. Barack
- Content type: Neuroscience and Its Philosophy
- Published: 01 July 2020
- Pages: 1091 - 1123
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A case of shared consciousness
Authors
- Tom Cochrane
- Content type: Neuroscience and Its Philosophy
- Published: 24 June 2020
- Pages: 1019 - 1037
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Prediction versus understanding in computationally enhanced neuroscience
Authors
- M. Chirimuuta
- Content type: Neuroscience and Its Philosophy
- Published: 28 May 2020
- Pages: 767 - 790
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Self-supervision, normativity and the free energy principle
Authors
- Jakob Hohwy
- Content type: Neuroscience and Its Philosophy
- Published: 13 March 2020
- Pages: 29 - 53
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Tracking intentionalism and the phenomenology of mental effort
Authors
- Maria Doulatova
- Content type: Neuroscience and Its Philosophy
- Published: 26 October 2019
- Pages: 4373 - 4389
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Can massive modularity explain human intelligence? Information control problem and implications for cognitive architecture
Authors
- Linus Ta-Lun Huang
- Content type: S.I.: Neuroscience and Its Philosophy
- Published: 26 July 2019
- Pages: 8043 - 8072
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The overlooked ubiquity of first-person experience in the cognitive sciences
Authors
- Joana Rigato
- Scott M. Rennie
- Zachary F. Mainen
- Content type: S.I.: Neuroscience and Its Philosophy
- Published: 26 February 2019
- Pages: 8005 - 8041
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Productive theory-ladenness in fMRI
Authors
- M. Emrah Aktunc
- Content type: S.I.: Neuroscience and Its Philosophy
- Published: 08 February 2019
- Pages: 7987 - 8003