This paper examines and defends the view that the immediate objects of visual perception, or what are often called sense data, are parts of the facing surfaces of physical objects. I will call this the naturalized sense data (NSD) theory. Occasionally defended in the literature on the philosophy of perception, most famously by G. E. Moore (1918-1919), it has not proved popular and indeed was ab...

Modern management knowledge relies overwhelmingly on the written word and it’s disseminated through print. Writing in general and alphabetic writing in particular facilitated the development of abstract thinking and the linear logic necessary for the systematic framing of individual activities into purposeful functions. In so doing it precipitated the necessary future goal-orientation required ...

The question “what is a system?” has arguably marked a division between different strands within the systems thinking movement. ¿Are systems things in the world that can, for instance, be represented by means of systemic models? ¿Or are they mental constructions, the manifestation of our incapacity to take everything into account, that nevertheless allow us to make sense of our experience and o...

This paper suggests that recent contributions to the knowledge management literature could be taken to constitute a dramatic epistemic shift for the information systems field, which may open new frontiers in the theorization of information, communication, and forms of ICT-mediated social interaction. Specifically, it argues that a move away from an overly “intellectualist” conception of informa...

The current orthodoxy in cognitive science, what I describe as a commitment to deep representationalism, faces intractable problems. If we take these objections seriously, and I will argue that we should, there are two possible responses: 1. We are mistaken that representation is the locus of our cognitive capacities — we manage to be the successful cognitive agents in some other, non-represent...

Ghost-busting Ghost-busting, or less colloquially, anti-Cartesianism or non-representationalism, is a loose and internally fluid coalition (philosophical and empirical) comprising Dynamical, Embodied, Extended, Distributed, and Situated (DEEDS) theories of cognition. Gilbert Ryle – DEEDS’ anglophonic masthead [1] – supposedly exorcised the Cartesian propensity to postulate mind as an apparition...

In the next three chapters I apply the general conclusions of the previous Part to the problem of brains and minds; i.e. the relationship between individual psychology and the neurologi-cal mechanisms that underly it. I concentrate in particular on intentionality; i.e. the way in which our thoughts can be about the outside world, and how this enables us to interact with that world in meaningful...

Zahavi claims that the predictive processing (PP) approach supports a radical neurorepresentationalism, “according to which the content of our conscious experiences is a neural construct, a brain-generated simulation” (Zahavi, 2017, p. 1). He claims that this is because, on the one hand, spontaneous human cognition becomes equated with the model of cognition developed by sciences, and on the ot...

Abstract The objective of this study is to investigate facets the human phonological system in an attempt elucidate special nature mental representations and operations underlying some errors speech sound disorders (SSDs). After examining different theories on sounds their organization SSDs, we arrive at conclusion that existing elucidations do not suffice explain distinctive SSDs. Here, endors...

In the previous lecture I distinguished two nodes, or ‘attractors’, for the notion of representation, as it figures in contemporary philosophy. One node (‘irepresentation’) emphasises position in an inferential or functional network, the other (‘e-representation’) stresses correlation with an aspect of an external environment. I recommended that rather than trying to encompass both nodes in a s...