#891 Luis Favela: Complexity Science, 4E Cognition, and Explanatory Pluralism
RECORDED ON SEPTEMBER 20th 2023.
Dr. Luis Favela is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences (tenured) at the University of Central Florida. He is concurrently a Fellow in the Research Corporation for Science Advancement’s Molecular Basis of Cognition Scialog program. His research attempts to understand mind (i.e., behavior, cognition, and consciousness) from a naturalistic and interdisciplinary perspective.
In this episode, we start by talking about complexity science, and how it applies to the study of the mind, and the relationship between mind and brain. We then go through embodied cognition, distributed cognition, and extended cognition. We talk about computational-representational approaches in cognitive science and their limitations, and the computer metaphor of the mind. We discuss dynamical systems theory, what a dynamical system is, and a recent dynamical renaissance in neuroscience. Finally, we talk about mechanistic explanations in science, and explanatory pluralism.
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Intro
Complexity science, and the study of the mind
The mind and the brain
Embodied cognition
Distributed cognition
Is all social cognition distributed?
Extended cognition, and person-plus-tool-systems
Computational-representational approaches in cognitive science, and their limitations
The computer metaphor of the mind
What is a dynamical system?
A dynamical renaissance in neuroscience
Mechanistic explanations in science, and explanatory pluralism
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