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Reliable Color Misrepresentation and Color Vision
Tracking theories of mental representation posit a privileged relation between color representations and the color properties of objects. Tracking...
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Greatest surprise reduction semantics: an information theoretic solution to misrepresentation and disjunction
Causal theories of content, a popular family of approaches to defining the content of mental states, commonly run afoul of two related and serious...
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“It’s Just Business”: Understanding How Business Frames Differ from Ethical Frames and the Effect on Unethical Behavior
Unfortunately, business is often associated with unethical behavior. While research has offered a number of explanations for why business might...
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Strong liberal representationalism
The received view holds that there is a significant divide between full-blown representational states and so called ‘detectors’, which are mechanisms...
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How to balance Balanced Reporting and Reliable Reporting
The paper draws on philosophy of science to help resolve a tension between two central journalistic ideals: That of resenting diverse viewpoints ( Bala...
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Data models, representation and adequacy-for-purpose
We critically engage two traditional views of scientific data and outline a novel philosophical view that we call the pragmatic-representational (PR)...
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Why does Faithful Epistemic Representation Matter for Management Practices? The Case of the Natural Environment in Management Theory
Management theory is a diverse field where multiple theoretical perspectives coexist and coevolve, leading to conceptual pluralism. While conceptual...
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Potential Consciousness of Human Cerebral Organoids: on Similarity-Based Views in Precautionary Discourse
Advances in research on human cerebral organoids (HCOs) call for a critical review of current research policies. A challenge for the evaluation of...
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Hypocrisy and Epistemic Injustice
In this article I argue that we should understand some forms of hypocritical behaviour in terms of epistemic injustice; a type of injustice in which...
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Better Scared than Sorry: The Pragmatic Account of Emotional Representation
Some emotional representations seem to be unreliable. For instance, we are often afraid when there is no danger present. If emotions such as fear are...
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Is forensic science in crisis?
The results of forensic science are believed to be reliable, and are widely used in support of verdicts around the world. However, due to the lack of...
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Corporate Sustainability Disclosure Standards Must Emphasize Outcomes Over Policies
Corporate sustainability reporting is becoming ubiquitous practice, but this increase in disclosure has not led to improvements in outcomes of...
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The Dual-Explananda Defence
In this chapter, I discuss the view that complete explanations of cognitive phenomena require accounting for explananda which cannot be explained...
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What Is Explanatorily Fundamental in an Analysis of Perception?
Perception guides our actions, decisions are routinely made on the basis of perception, and most scientific knowledge derives at least in part from...
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The genetic informational network: how DNA conveys semantic information
The question of whether “genetic information” is a merely causal factor in development or can be made sense of semantically, in a way analogous to a...
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Multivariate pattern analysis and the search for neural representations
Multivariate pattern analysis, or MVPA, has become one of the most popular analytic methods in cognitive neuroscience. Since its inception, MVPA has...
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Faces in disguise. Masks, concealment, and deceit
The present study investigates and thematizes the interrelation between face masking, concealment, and deceit. It starts from the premise that the...
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Consciousness and Self-awareness—an Alternative Perspective
An alternative model of the relation between consciousness and self-consciousness is proposed. The model combines a non-standard version of the...
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Qualia share their correlates’ locations
This paper presents the location-sharing argument, which concludes that qualia must share the locations of their physical correlates. The first...