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SUMMARY:From Symbols to Icons: The return of resemblance in the cognitive 
 neuroscience revolution - Lincoln Colling
DTSTART:20171024T121000Z
DTEND:20171024T130000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Arthur Dudney
DESCRIPTION:Boone and Piccinini (2015) have recently argued that cognitive
  neuroscience constitutes a revolutionary break from traditional cognitive
  science\, distinguished by its abandonment of the autonomy of psychology 
 from neuroscience in favour of a multilevel mechanistic approach to neuroc
 ognitive explanation. Drawing on work by Williams and Colling (2017)\, I e
 xplain one important aspect of this revolution: a dramatic shift away from
  thinking of cognitive representations as arbitrary symbols towards thinki
 ng of them as icons that replicate structural characteristics of their tar
 gets. This shift has received increasing attention in the philosophical li
 terature in recent years (e.g.\, Churchland 2012\; Cummins 1989\; Grush 20
 04\; Gładziejewski and Miłkowski 2017\; O’Brien and Opie 2015\; Ryder 
 2004\; Williams 2017). We aim to clarify what it consists in\, and explain
  why it has occurred.
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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