A new theory is taking hold in neuroscience. It is the theory that the brain is essentially a
hypothesis-testing mechanism, one that attempts to minimise the error of its predictions …

Philosophers and cognitive scientists have worried that research on animal mind‐reading
faces a 'logical problem': the difficulty of experimentally determining whether animals …

Consciousness is the way our mental lives appear to us subjectively. The stream of
consciousness is a stream of mental appearances of perceptions, feelings, desires, and …

Florian J. Boge Page 1 European Studies in Philosophy of Science Florian J. Boge
Quantum Mechanics Between Ontology and Epistemology Page 2 European Studies in …

This volume examines two main questions: What is linguistics about? And how do the
results of linguistic theorizing bear on inquiry in related fields, particularly in psychology …

The field of the philosophy of biology is flourishing in its aim to evaluate and rethink the view
inherited from the previous century---the Modern Synthesis. Different research areas and …

This paper examines whether realists can explain co-reference without appealing to
subjects' ideal convergence in judgment. This question is particularly pressing in the …

Representationalism holds that a perceptual experience's qualitative character is identical
with certain of its representational properties. To date, most representationalists endorse …

According to what Birch calls the theory-heavy approach to investigating nonhuman-animal
consciousness, we select one of the well-developed theories of consciousness currently …

This chapter determines different metasemantic approaches to explaining how the content of
normative terms. It divides the accounts into two broad groups—internalist approaches and …