In this paper we carve out a reformist agenda within the debate on the foundations of cognitive science, incorporating some important ideas from the 4E cognition literature into the computational-representational framework. We are deeply sympathetic to this reformist program since we think that, despite strong criticism of the concept of computation and the related notion of representation, computational models should still be at the core of the study of the mind. At the same time, we recognize the need for a liberalization of the computational and representational framework that can address deep dissatisfaction with the anti-biologism and radical internalism of classical cognitive science. However, reform is a difficult task, so we focus on two open questions within the reformist agenda. The first concerns the possibility of combining mechanistic-computational and dynamical explanations. The second concerns related changes in the notion of representation and its use (with special attention to Andy Clark’s radical predictive processing).

Alegiani, A., Marraffa, M., Vistarini, T. (2023). Two open questions in the reformist agenda of the philosophy of cognitive science. RIVISTA INTERNAZIONALE DI FILOSOFIA E PSICOLOGIA, 14(1-2), 59-73 [10.4453/rifp.2023.0005].

Two open questions in the reformist agenda of the philosophy of cognitive science.

Aurora Alegiani;Massimo Marraffa;Tiziana Vistarini
2023-01-01

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In this paper we carve out a reformist agenda within the debate on the foundations of cognitive science, incorporating some important ideas from the 4E cognition literature into the computational-representational framework. We are deeply sympathetic to this reformist program since we think that, despite strong criticism of the concept of computation and the related notion of representation, computational models should still be at the core of the study of the mind. At the same time, we recognize the need for a liberalization of the computational and representational framework that can address deep dissatisfaction with the anti-biologism and radical internalism of classical cognitive science. However, reform is a difficult task, so we focus on two open questions within the reformist agenda. The first concerns the possibility of combining mechanistic-computational and dynamical explanations. The second concerns related changes in the notion of representation and its use (with special attention to Andy Clark’s radical predictive processing).
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Alegiani, A., Marraffa, M., Vistarini, T. (2023). Two open questions in the reformist agenda of the philosophy of cognitive science. RIVISTA INTERNAZIONALE DI FILOSOFIA E PSICOLOGIA, 14(1-2), 59-73 [10.4453/rifp.2023.0005].
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