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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (4): 621–623.
Published: 01 October 2001
...Alan Millar THE BODY IN MIND: UNDERSTANDING COGNITIVE PROCESSES. By Mark Rowlands. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, Pp. x, 270. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS
The Philosophical Review, Vol. 110, No. 4 (October 2001)
THE BODY...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (2): 209–239.
Published: 01 April 2012
... acts of deliberation thus leads to infinite regresses and related problems. As a consequence, there must be processes that are nondeliberative and nonvoluntary but that nonetheless allow us to think and act for reasons, and these processes must be the ones that generate the voluntary activities making...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (4): 463–509.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Jack C. Lyons The paper offers a solution to the generality problem for a reliabilist epistemology, by developing an “algorithm and parameters” scheme for type-individuating cognitive processes. Algorithms are detailed procedures for mapping inputs to outputs. Parameters are psychological variables...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (3): 323–393.
Published: 01 July 2020
...). According to DRH, perceptual processes are constrained to compute over a bounded range of dimensions, while cognitive processes are not. This view allows that perception is cognitively penetrable, but places strict limits on the varieties of penetration that can occur. The article argues that DRH enjoys...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 January 2009
...Thomas Crowther There has been relatively little discussion, in contemporary philosophy of mind, of the active aspects of perceptual processes. This essay presents and offers some preliminary development of a view about what it is for an agent to watch a particular material object throughout...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (2): 151–196.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Daniel Hoek Conversational exculpature is a pragmatic process whereby information is subtracted from, rather than added to, what the speaker literally says. This pragmatic content subtraction explains why we can say “Rob is six feet tall” without implying that Rob is between 5 ′11.99″ and 6 ′0.01...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (4): 558–561.
Published: 01 October 2018
...: Colors are properties of perceptual interactions [or processes] involving a perceiver (P) endowed with a spectrally discriminating visual system (V) and a stimulus (S) with spectral contrast of the sort that can be exploited by V. (140) She says, “we must focus on the interaction occurring between...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (3): 371–375.
Published: 01 July 2019
... on this guiding picture by questioning the unity of the mind. So-called dual process theories, and later refinements of such theories (e.g., Evans 2010 ), postulate different processes going on in our heads, where these processes may run their course fairly independently of one another, without the need for any...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (3): 394–398.
Published: 01 July 2022
....” The challenge is this: given that we are already equipped with a notion of credence, what is the point of outright beliefs? What this shows, I think, is that a fully comprehensive theory of rationality will need to have two dimensions. First, it will need take into account the process responsible...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (3): 395–425.
Published: 01 July 2013
... by a mistake on S's side. But the reasoning on which your belief is in fact based at t 3 is still your original process of reasoning, and this does not include such a response to this defeater. Therefore, the reasoning on which your belief, at t 3 , is based no longer is or resembles a good argument from your...
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The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (3): 427–431.
Published: 01 July 2004
... object (person, tree, etc.) causes sub-
sequent information processing about that object. Call this role “targeting,”
and distinguish it from the (putative) role of experience in understanding
what a use of a demonstrative refers to. Targeting is supposed to happen in
both normal cases and cases...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (4): 623–626.
Published: 01 October 2001
... that Rowlands is chasing after something
like this. (In this connection it is significant that he expresses the environmen-
talist ontological claim both as a claim about cognitive processes (31) and as a
claim about mental processes (8 So far as perception is concerned, what
really matters to him...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (4): 589–594.
Published: 01 October 2002
...—but are somewhat phony world-bound properties that
depend on what the laws of nature happen to be.
Ellis calls his alternative metaphysic scientific essentialism, and he summarizes it
in five contrasting theses (7):
1. Causal relations are relations between events in causal processes...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (1): 131–134.
Published: 01 January 2019
... perception is an ongoing process of anticipation and fulfillment. In a nutshell, what is distinctive about (AF) is the idea that vision is partly future-tensed . For (AF) posits visual contents that involve anticipation —that is, visual contents that are not just about how the objects of vision are right...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (2): 239–292.
Published: 01 April 2023
...; Quilty-Dunn 2020). 3 Encapsulation, it is thought, explains (or partially explains) tractability by ensuring that perceptual processing does not incur the computational costs of search through large stores of information in cognition, as it would if perception were unencapsulated. Call...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (3): 426–431.
Published: 01 July 2018
... inherently tied to the chemical composition of the media it processes (146–47). But a sieve responds only to some dimensions of spatiotemporal variance (lengths or volumes) and not others (the chemical composition of sorted granules); its abstract rule to sort by magnitude may be instantiated in different...
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The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (3): 319–322.
Published: 01 July 2024
... is right that the explanatory and moral benefits we gain from recognizing the falsity of the imagined self are diminished if we allow a “surrogate” self—such as a process view of the self, a “minimal” subjective self, or even a conventional designation—to take up the self’s role in our reasoning. Chadha...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (3): 295–325.
Published: 01 July 2022
... a body, which is qualitatively identical with the scanned one and belongs to a person P 2 , who is numerically distinct from P 1 (fig. 1). Note that these two assembling processes at p 1 and p 2 (and the assembling process in the actual world...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (3): 417–420.
Published: 01 July 2017
... system consisting of an information producer and an endorsement mechanism. The endorsement mechanism either endorses or rejects the content generated by the information producer, and endorsed content results in a belief. The reliability of this two-step process depends on the ratio of accurate...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (3): 361–364.
Published: 01 July 2022
.... But what is this ‘something’ of the virtues we already possess, which allows us to be receptive to the process of habituation that culminates in mature virtue? That ‘something’, says Jimenez, are desiderative and emotional tendencies that orient us toward the noble. In particular, we are born with a sense...
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