The idea that perception is distinct from cognition not just intuitive, it central to countless debates in philosophy and psychology. For example, when researchers ask which properties can be visually represented or experienced? They are assuming there a difference between being (visual) perception, them merely post-perceptual thought cognition. Indeed, many define their careers terms of this d...

This essay describes computational semantic networks for a philosophical audience and surveys several approaches to semanticnetwork semantics. In particular, propositional semantic networks (exemplified by SNePS) are discussed; it is argued that only a fully intensional, Meinongian semantics is appropriate for them; and several Meinongian systems are presented. 1. Meinong, Philosophy, and Artif...

Our symposium will present four research projects all working from a complex-dynamical-systems perspectives on development and learning. The projects share a fundamental commitment to ecologicalcum-epigenetic models of skill development as emergent in complex biological–material-environmental dynamical systems in flux. The session reaches from primitive organisms through to humans learning as i...

A study of electroencephalographic brain activity in behaving animals has guided the development of a model for the self-organization of goal-directed behavior. Synthesis of a dynamical representation of brain function is based in the concept of intentionality as the organizing principle of animal and human behavior. The constructions of patterns of brain activity constitute meaning and not inf...

The notion of ‘entanglement’ has been central to the development of the emerging perspective on sociomateriality in organizations. But employing a metaphor of entanglement implies an ontological commitment to treat social and material agencies as empirically inseparable. This commitment to inseparability makes it very difficult to think about redesigning systems to work better because they cann...

In what ways can artificial life contribute to the scientific exploration of cognitive, affective and social processes? In what sense can synthetic models be relevant for the advancement of behavioral and cognitive sciences? This article addresses these questions by way of a case study — an interdisciplinary cooperation between developmental robotics and developmental psychology in the explorat...

According to the traditional conception of the mind, semantical content is perhaps the most important feature distinguishing mental from non-mental systems. And this traditional conception has been incorporated into the foundations of contemporary scientific approaches to the mind, insofar as the notion of ‘mental representation’ is adopted as a primary theoretical device. Symbolic representati...

Alva Noë’s version of the enactive conception in Action in Perception is an important contribution to the study of visual perception. First, I argue, however, that it is unclear (at best) whether, as the enactivists claim, work on change blindness supports the denial of the existence of detailed visual representations. Second, I elaborate on what Noë calls the ‘puzzle of perceptual presence’. T...

This paper is an attempt to assess the attitude of a modernist work towards popular culture and the social changes that transformed the United States during the twenties. Its main contention is that modernism's emphasis on epistemology has tended to obscure the conservative stance of many of its creations, apparent in their reaction against the new reconsideration of class and gender brought ab...

Arguments for property dualism offer a strong challenge to materialist views, but even if they are regarded as successful, a large task remains, namely, to develop a positive account of the place of non-physical properties in the world — one that holds some promise of eventual satisfaction regarding the hard problem. After noting some difficulties in current approaches to this task, this paper ...