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Putting information to work

Fred Dretske

In Philip P. Hanson (ed.), Information, Language and Cognition. University of British Columbia Press (1990)

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Putting Thoughts to Work: Concepts, Systematicity, and Stimulus‐Independence.Elisabeth Camp - 2009 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 78 (2):275-311.details I argue that we can reconcile two seemingly incompatible traditions for thinking about concepts. On the one hand, many cognitive scientists assume that the systematic redeployment of representational abilities suffices for having concepts. On the other hand, a long philosophical tradition maintains that language is necessary for genuinely conceptual thought. I argue that on a theoretically useful and empirically plausible concept of 'concept', it is necessary and sufficient for conceptual thought that a thinker be able to entertain many of the (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 57 citations
Naturalized perception without information.John Dilworth - 2004 - Journal of Mind and Behavior 25 (4):349-368.details The outlines of a novel, fully naturalistic theory of perception are provided, that can explain perception of an object X by organism Z in terms of reflexive causality. On the reflexive view proposed, organism Z perceives object or property X just in case X causes Z to acquire causal dispositions reflexively directed back upon X itself. This broadly functionalist theory is potentially capable of explaining both perceptual representation and perceptual content in purely causal terms, making no use of informational concepts. (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 9 citations
(1 other version)Intentionality and naturalism.Stephen P. Stich & Stephen Laurence - 1994 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 19 (1):159-82.details ...the deepest motivation for intentional irrealism derives not from such relatively technical worries about individualism and holism as we. Download Export citation Bookmark 20 citations
Contextuality: A philosophical paradigm, with applications to philosophy of cognitive science.C. Gershenson - 2002details We develop on the idea that everything is related, inside, and therefore determined by a context. This stance, which at first might seem obvious, has several important consequences. This paper first presents ideas on Contextuality, for then applying them to problems in philosophy of cognitive science. Because of space limitations, for the second part we will assume that the reader is familiar with the literature of philosophy of cognitive science, but if this is not the case, it would not be (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations
The informational turn in philosophy.Frederick Adams - 2003 - Minds and Machines 13 (4):471-501.details This paper traces the application of information theory to philosophical problems of mind and meaning from the earliest days of the creation of the mathematical theory of communication. The use of information theory to understand purposive behavior, learning, pattern recognition, and more marked the beginning of the naturalization of mind and meaning. From the inception of information theory, Wiener, Turing, and others began trying to show how to make a mind from informational and computational materials. Over the last 50 years, (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 31 citations
Information, belief, and causal role.Paul G. Skokowski - 1999 - In Lawrence Moss, Gizburg S., Rijke Jonathaden & Maarten (eds.), Logic, Language and Computation Vol. CSLI Publications.details Download Export citation Bookmark

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