Swedish Humanitarian Functionalism Design and Svenskt Tenn

Constructing Swedish Fashion Identity. Svenskt Mode (Swedish Fashion): 2000–2015, Sven-Harry’s Art Museum, Stockholm, May 23–August 31, 2014

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Extended cognition and functionalism

Andy Clark and David Chalmers argue that the mind sometimes extends outside the body to encompass features of the environment (HEC). HEC has been criticised by Fred Adams, Kenneth Aizawa, and Robert Rupert. In this paper, I argue for two claims: (1) HEC is a harder target than those critics have supposed; HEC is entailed by functionalism, a commonly held view in philosophy of mind, and one to w...

Query Expansion with Svenskt OrdNät

A couple of months ago my research group at SSLIS received a copy of the lexicon Svenskt OrdNät by prof. Åke Viberg, Department for Linguistics and Philosophy at Uppsala University, to evaluate its usefulness in an ongoing retrieval and classification project. Having worked with the “original” WordNet1 system, developed at Princeton University, I was curious to find out more about its Swedish c...

Synaesthesia, Functionalism and Phenomenology

Parallelism and Functionalism

as funct/onal/sm. It is my contention that his argument is seriously mistaken and rests on a misunderstanding of the functionalist position. While my primary aim is to defend functionalism from Thagard’s attack, in the process I hope to provide some much needed clarification of matters both philosophical and computational. Since I intend to untangle issues that are often troublesome in cognitiv...