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Title: Automata's Inner Movie: Science and Philosophy of Mind
Year: (2019)
Editora: Vernon Press
Eds: Steven S. Gouveia (Uni.Minho) and Manuel Curado (Uni. Minho)
Pages: 388.
Preface - Georg Northoff (Uni. Ottawa)
" (...) To sum up. The many interesting contributions in this book aim linking philosophical questions with neuroscientific insights. Such methodological approach of linking neuroscience and philosophy has been subsumed under the umbrella term ‘neurophilosophy’. Neurophilosophy develops from the encounter of neuroscience which has led to intense debate in philosophy how its originally mind-based concepts are related to the brain and its neural function. While some proponents in especially the angloamerican world suggest reductive replacement of philosophy by neuroscience as manifest in what they call neurophilosophy, the opponents claim for a more non-reductive form of neurophilosophy where both philosophy and neuroscience are closely intertwined but distinct. I here sketch the field of such non-reductive neurophilosophy by distinguishing different domains, empirical (neuroscientific investigation of originally philosophical concepts) theoretical (methodological and conceptual issues), and practical (neuroethical questions) neurophilosophy. In conclusion, a non-reductive neurophilosophy opens the door for a truly transdisciplinary exchange between philosophy and neuroscience which will lead to novel questions and approaches in both disciplines."
Introduction: Steven S. Gouveia & Manuel Curado
PART 1 - Introduction and Historical Perspectives
1. Philosophy of Mind and Reductionism - Steven S. Gouveia (Uni. Minho)
2. Thomas Henry Huxley and the mind-body problem - Hortense de Villaine (Uni. Paris Nanterre)
3. An Essay against Philosophy of Mind: Reading Unloved Theories of Mind - Manuel Curado (Uni. Minho)
4. Navigating Berkeley’s Puzzle: objectivity, experience, and their relations - Ivan V. Ivanov (Shandong Uni.)
PART II: Philosophy of Mind: Dialoguing with Sciences
5. Representing the World with Occam’s Razor: an Informational Teleosemantics of the Basis Predictive Processing Paradigm - Zong Ning (Uni. Tokyo)
6. (Never)Minding the gap? Integrated Information Theory and Philosophy of Consciousness - Federico Zilio (Uni. Padua)
7. Brains and language: The cognitive aspect of semantics - Nathália Pantaleão (Uni. Campinas)
8. Free-will Perception in Human Mental Health: an Axiomatic Formalization - Nicolás Lori, Emilia Samit, German Picciochi & Paulo Jesus (Uni. Coimbra; Catholic Uni. la Plata; Uni. Nacional de Buenos Aires; Uni. Lisbon)
PART III: Perception, Memory and Experience
9. A Process-based Approach to Visual Motion - Sami Renno (Humboldt Uni.)
10. Socially extending the mind through social affordances - Eros Moreira de Carvalho (Federal Uni. Rio Grande Sul)
11. Necessary Self-Awarness - Maiya Jordan (McGill Uni.)
12. Placing the subjective locus in the environment: how social media are enhancing the autobiographical remembering and identity formation processes - Veridiana Domingos Cordeiro & Hugo Neri (Uni. São Paulo; Uni. Cambridge)
PART IV: Artificial and Human Intelligence
13. Can the Intelligence Machine Overcome the Human Intelligence? - Judite Zamith-Cruz & Paulo Vieira (Uni. Minho; Uni. Liverpool)
14. Do We Design Artificial Intelligence In Human-like Discourse? - Alexander Lazarov (Uni. Sofia)
15. A temporal perspective on Artificial Intelligence. Time in brains and machines - Andrea Roselli (Uni. Rome Tre)
PART V: Computation and Ethics of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
16. Stretching Personhood beyond Humans: What recent discussions on animal rights can teach us on the ethical and political treatment of robots - Liat Lavi (Bar Ilan Uni.)
17. Is Big Data the new capture machine? Correlations between Data Mining and Gilles Deleuze philosophy - Manuel Cebral (Santiago de Compostela Uni.)
18. The Proper Place of Computations and Representations in Cognitive Science - Igor F. Mikhailov (Russian Academy of National Economy)
Appraisal: "The branch of philosophy called “philosophy of mind” has been center stage in the discipline for over a half-century. Involving issues such as consciousness, perception, and intentionality, the sub-discipline has often intersected with the sciences, particularly those of biology and neuroscience. This timely book draws together thinkers trained in the logical and concept-driven methodologies of philosophy with those trained in the empirical sciences. Importantly, it affords the reader a multidisciplinary book that guides them in the general approaches to the problems, theories, and areas that are involved. It begins with a section devoted to a historical overview of the general problems in the Philosophy of Mind. The next section begins the “transdisciplinary” dovetailing of philosophy with science, with chapters examining predictive processing, semantics, and issues free-will in mental health. Section III continues the philosophical examination of traditional concerns such as self-awareness and identity formation, with the final two sections facing such pressing issues as human versus artificial intelligence, and the ethical issues surrounding big data. The volume allows readers to understand the general field of Theoretical Neurophilosophy, which brings together both the fact-based practices in the science with the concept-based tradition in philosophy; a linkage the editors refer to as the “concept-fact linkage.” Science’s dependence on theoretical frameworks mirrors philosophy’s dependence on empirical data; this volume unites the two missions."
- Prof. Dr. Dena Shottenkirk (Brooklyn College, The City University of New York)
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(Discount code: CFC1720A4D2)
Title: Automata's Inner Movie: Science and Philosophy of Mind
Year: (2019)
Editora: Vernon Press
Eds: Steven S. Gouveia (Uni.Minho) and Manuel Curado (Uni. Minho)
Pages: 388.
Preface - Georg Northoff (Uni. Ottawa)
" (...) To sum up. The many interesting contributions in this book aim linking philosophical questions with neuroscientific insights. Such methodological approach of linking neuroscience and philosophy has been subsumed under the umbrella term ‘neurophilosophy’. Neurophilosophy develops from the encounter of neuroscience which has led to intense debate in philosophy how its originally mind-based concepts are related to the brain and its neural function. While some proponents in especially the angloamerican world suggest reductive replacement of philosophy by neuroscience as manifest in what they call neurophilosophy, the opponents claim for a more non-reductive form of neurophilosophy where both philosophy and neuroscience are closely intertwined but distinct. I here sketch the field of such non-reductive neurophilosophy by distinguishing different domains, empirical (neuroscientific investigation of originally philosophical concepts) theoretical (methodological and conceptual issues), and practical (neuroethical questions) neurophilosophy. In conclusion, a non-reductive neurophilosophy opens the door for a truly transdisciplinary exchange between philosophy and neuroscience which will lead to novel questions and approaches in both disciplines."
Introduction: Steven S. Gouveia & Manuel Curado
PART 1 - Introduction and Historical Perspectives
1. Philosophy of Mind and Reductionism - Steven S. Gouveia (Uni. Minho)
2. Thomas Henry Huxley and the mind-body problem - Hortense de Villaine (Uni. Paris Nanterre)
3. An Essay against Philosophy of Mind: Reading Unloved Theories of Mind - Manuel Curado (Uni. Minho)
4. Navigating Berkeley’s Puzzle: objectivity, experience, and their relations - Ivan V. Ivanov (Shandong Uni.)
PART II: Philosophy of Mind: Dialoguing with Sciences
5. Representing the World with Occam’s Razor: an Informational Teleosemantics of the Basis Predictive Processing Paradigm - Zong Ning (Uni. Tokyo)
6. (Never)Minding the gap? Integrated Information Theory and Philosophy of Consciousness - Federico Zilio (Uni. Padua)
7. Brains and language: The cognitive aspect of semantics - Nathália Pantaleão (Uni. Campinas)
8. Free-will Perception in Human Mental Health: an Axiomatic Formalization - Nicolás Lori, Emilia Samit, German Picciochi & Paulo Jesus (Uni. Coimbra; Catholic Uni. la Plata; Uni. Nacional de Buenos Aires; Uni. Lisbon)
PART III: Perception, Memory and Experience
9. A Process-based Approach to Visual Motion - Sami Renno (Humboldt Uni.)
10. Socially extending the mind through social affordances - Eros Moreira de Carvalho (Federal Uni. Rio Grande Sul)
11. Necessary Self-Awarness - Maiya Jordan (McGill Uni.)
12. Placing the subjective locus in the environment: how social media are enhancing the autobiographical remembering and identity formation processes - Veridiana Domingos Cordeiro & Hugo Neri (Uni. São Paulo; Uni. Cambridge)
PART IV: Artificial and Human Intelligence
13. Can the Intelligence Machine Overcome the Human Intelligence? - Judite Zamith-Cruz & Paulo Vieira (Uni. Minho; Uni. Liverpool)
14. Do We Design Artificial Intelligence In Human-like Discourse? - Alexander Lazarov (Uni. Sofia)
15. A temporal perspective on Artificial Intelligence. Time in brains and machines - Andrea Roselli (Uni. Rome Tre)
PART V: Computation and Ethics of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
16. Stretching Personhood beyond Humans: What recent discussions on animal rights can teach us on the ethical and political treatment of robots - Liat Lavi (Bar Ilan Uni.)
17. Is Big Data the new capture machine? Correlations between Data Mining and Gilles Deleuze philosophy - Manuel Cebral (Santiago de Compostela Uni.)
18. The Proper Place of Computations and Representations in Cognitive Science - Igor F. Mikhailov (Russian Academy of National Economy)
Appraisal: "The branch of philosophy called “philosophy of mind” has been center stage in the discipline for over a half-century. Involving issues such as consciousness, perception, and intentionality, the sub-discipline has often intersected with the sciences, particularly those of biology and neuroscience. This timely book draws together thinkers trained in the logical and concept-driven methodologies of philosophy with those trained in the empirical sciences. Importantly, it affords the reader a multidisciplinary book that guides them in the general approaches to the problems, theories, and areas that are involved. It begins with a section devoted to a historical overview of the general problems in the Philosophy of Mind. The next section begins the “transdisciplinary” dovetailing of philosophy with science, with chapters examining predictive processing, semantics, and issues free-will in mental health. Section III continues the philosophical examination of traditional concerns such as self-awareness and identity formation, with the final two sections facing such pressing issues as human versus artificial intelligence, and the ethical issues surrounding big data. The volume allows readers to understand the general field of Theoretical Neurophilosophy, which brings together both the fact-based practices in the science with the concept-based tradition in philosophy; a linkage the editors refer to as the “concept-fact linkage.” Science’s dependence on theoretical frameworks mirrors philosophy’s dependence on empirical data; this volume unites the two missions."
- Prof. Dr. Dena Shottenkirk (Brooklyn College, The City University of New York)
Buy:
(Discount code: CFC1720A4D2)
