Barton Moffatt
Biographic Data
| ID | 1065328 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barton Moffatt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barton |
| FAMILY NAME | Moffatt |
| SIGNATURE | MOFFATT B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3352-6343 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Promise and Peril of Using Attention Economy Data for Public Research
Conflations in the Causal Account of Information Undermine the Parity Thesis
The received view in philosophy of biology is that there is a well-understood, philosophically rigorous account of information—causal information. I argue that this view is mistaken. Causal information is fatally undermined by misinterpretations and conflations between distinct independent accounts of information. As a result, philosophical arguments based on causal information are deeply flawed. I end by briefly considering what a correct applic…
Distributed Cognition
Among the many contested boundaries in science studies is that between the cognitive and the social. Here, we are concerned to question this boundary from a perspective within the cognitive sciences based on the notion of distributed cognition. We first present two of many contemporary sources of the notion of distributed cognition, one from the study of artificial neural networks and one from cognitive anthropology. We then proceed to reinterpre…
Distributed Cognition
Among the many contested boundaries in science studies is that between the cognitive and the social. Here, we are concerned to question this boundary from a perspective within the cognitive sciences based on the notion of distributed cognition. We first present two of many contemporary sources of the notion of distributed cognition, one from the study of artificial neural networks and one from cognitive anthropology. We then proceed to reinterpre…
Conflations in the Causal Account of Information Undermine the Parity Thesis
The received view in philosophy of biology is that there is a well-understood, philosophically rigorous account of information—causal information. I argue that this view is mistaken. Causal information is fatally undermined by misinterpretations and conflations between distinct independent accounts of information. As a result, philosophical arguments based on causal information are deeply flawed. I end by briefly considering what a correct applic…
Distributed Cognition
Among the many contested boundaries in science studies is that between the cognitive and the social. Here, we are concerned to question this boundary from a perspective within the cognitive sciences based on the notion of distributed cognition. We first present two of many contemporary sources of the notion of distributed cognition, one from the study of artificial neural networks and one from cognitive anthropology. We then proceed to reinterpre…
Conflations in the Causal Account of Information Undermine the Parity Thesis
The received view in philosophy of biology is that there is a well-understood, philosophically rigorous account of information—causal information. I argue that this view is mistaken. Causal information is fatally undermined by misinterpretations and conflations between distinct independent accounts of information. As a result, philosophical arguments based on causal information are deeply flawed. I end by briefly considering what a correct applic…
The Promise and Peril of Using Attention Economy Data for Public Research
Advanced Causal Inference Techniques (1 work) · Causal structure (1 work) · Causation (1 work) · Context (archaeology) (1 work) · Economic, financial, and policy analysis (1 work) · Embodied and Extended Cognition (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · History (1 work) · Italy: Economic History and Contemporary Issues (1 work) · Language and cultural evolution (1 work)