According to predictive processing, an increasingly influential paradigm in cognitive science,
the function of the brain is to minimize the prediction error of its sensory input. Conceptual …

Conceptual knowledge plays a pivotal role in human cognition. Grounded cognition theories
propose that concepts consist of perceptual-motor features represented in modality-specific …

There is a longstanding debate between those who think that cognition extends into the
external environment (extend cognition) and those who think it is located squarely within the …

Conceptual engineers aim to revise rather than describe our concepts. But what are
concepts? And how does one engineer them? Answering these questions is of central …

In this paper, I discuss the emerging field of conceptual engineering from the perspective of
the philosophy of mind and cognitive science. I explore the role the latter disciplines can and …

Conceptual engineering means to provide a method to assess and improve our concepts
working as cognitive devices. But conceptual engineering still lacks an account of what …

Predictive processing (PP) is now a prominent theoretical framework in the philosophy of
mind and cognitive science. This review focuses on PP research with a relatively …

Predictive processing (PP) and embodied cognition (EC) have emerged as two influential
approaches within cognitive science in recent years. Not only have PP and EC been …

The debate about the nature of the representational format of concepts seems to have
reached an impasse. The debate faces two fundamental problems. Firstly, amodalists (ie …

Many of our cognitive capacities are the result of enculturation. Enculturation is the
temporally extended transformative acquisition of cognitive practices in the cognitive niche …