3 wider range of scientific domains. We should emphasize that both of these classifications
are idealizations. Metaphysical and methodological questions are of course not that easy to …

In artificial intelligence, recent research has demonstrated the remarkable potential of Deep
Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs), which seem to exceed state-of-the-art …

Detailed examinations of scientific practice have revealed that the use of idealized models in
the sciences is pervasive. These models play a central role in not only the investigation and …

This chapter outlines and defends a mechanistic interpretation of David Marr's account of
explanation in cognitive science and thereby attempts to resolve the ambiguities that remain …

According to an orthodox view, the capacity for conscious experience (sentience) is relevant
to the distribution of moral status and value. However, physicalism about consciousness …

We provide two programmatic frameworks for integrating philosophical research on
understanding with complementary work in computer science, psychology, and …

Functionalism about kinds is still the dominant style of thought in the special sciences, like
economics, psychology, and biology. Generally construed, functionalism is the view that …

Despite on-going debates in philosophy and cognitive science, dual process theory (DPT)
remains a popular framework for theorizing about human cognition. Its central hypothesis is …

Although this book is not an ethnography, it has an ethnographic situation. If it has a field
site, then it lies close to the places where the writing was done–in universities, on campuses …

In natural kind debates, Boyd's famous Homeostatic Property Cluster theory (HPC) is often
misconstrued in two ways: Not only is it thought to make for a normative standard for natural …