Cory Wright
Biographic Data
| ID | 3943512 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cory Wright |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cory |
| FAMILY NAME | Wright |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGHT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Long Beach |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2697-966X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
First principles in the life sciences
The free-energy principle states that all systems that minimize their free energy resist a tendency to physical disintegration. Originally proposed to account for perception, learning, and action, the free-energy principle has been applied to the evolution, development, morphology, anatomy and function of the brain, and has been called a postulate , an unfalsifiable principle , a natural law , and an imperative . While it might afford a theoretic…
Mechanist idealisation in systems biology
Why Do Teachers Connect Better With Some Students Than Others? Exploring the Influence of Teachers’ Creative-Thinking Preferences
Teacher–student connection is influenced by several factors and one possible factor is teachers’ creative - thinking preferences (CTP). The present study investigated the extent to which teachers’ CTP predicts their view of favorable student characteristics. Teachers’ CTP was measured by FourSight that featured four preferences: clarifying, ideating, developing, and implementing. Two hundred seventy-five teachers in the United States completed th…
Truth, explanation, minimalism
Rational analysis, intractability, and the prospects of ‘as if’-explanations
Minimalism about truth
Introduction to Scientific Reasoning
HIT and brain reward function
The ontic conception of scientific explanation
Delusions and Other Irrational Beliefs
While the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is psychiatry's premier guide to classifying and treating mental disorders, it is also renowned for the history and implications of its errata. Regarding delusions, the DSM partially defines them as ‘false beliefs based on incorrect inference about external reality’. But correctness is not a property inferences can bear, strictly speaking; and falsity cannot be a defining property, a…
Intractability and the use of heuristics in psychological explanations
Many cognitive scientists, having discovered that some computational-level characterization f of a cognitive capacity $${\phi}$$ is intractable, invoke heuristics as algorithmic-level explanations of how cognizers compute f. We argue that such explanations are actually dysfunctional, and rebut five possible objections. We then propose computational-level theory revision as a principled and workable alternative
Autonomous agency, AI, and allostasis
We argue that the concepts of mechanism and autonomy appear to be antagonistic when autonomy is conflated with agency. Once these concepts are disentangled, it becomes clearer how autonomy could emerge from complex forms of control — especially, homeostatic regulatory systems. While research in AI and robotics would do well to continue incorporating biomimetic strategies, we propose that invoking models of allostatic mechanisms is a better way to…
On the Functionalization of Pluralist Approaches to Truth
First principles in the life sciences
The free-energy principle states that all systems that minimize their free energy resist a tendency to physical disintegration. Originally proposed to account for perception, learning, and action, the free-energy principle has been applied to the evolution, development, morphology, anatomy and function of the brain, and has been called a postulate , an unfalsifiable principle , a natural law , and an imperative . While it might afford a theoretic…
Rational analysis, intractability, and the prospects of ‘as if’-explanations
The ontic conception of scientific explanation
On the Functionalization of Pluralist Approaches to Truth
Intractability and the use of heuristics in psychological explanations
Many cognitive scientists, having discovered that some computational-level characterization f of a cognitive capacity $${\phi}$$ is intractable, invoke heuristics as algorithmic-level explanations of how cognizers compute f. We argue that such explanations are actually dysfunctional, and rebut five possible objections. We then propose computational-level theory revision as a principled and workable alternative
On the Functionalization of Pluralist Approaches to Truth
Autonomous agency, AI, and allostasis
We argue that the concepts of mechanism and autonomy appear to be antagonistic when autonomy is conflated with agency. Once these concepts are disentangled, it becomes clearer how autonomy could emerge from complex forms of control — especially, homeostatic regulatory systems. While research in AI and robotics would do well to continue incorporating biomimetic strategies, we propose that invoking models of allostatic mechanisms is a better way to…
Intractability and the use of heuristics in psychological explanations
Many cognitive scientists, having discovered that some computational-level characterization f of a cognitive capacity $${\phi}$$ is intractable, invoke heuristics as algorithmic-level explanations of how cognizers compute f. We argue that such explanations are actually dysfunctional, and rebut five possible objections. We then propose computational-level theory revision as a principled and workable alternative
The ontic conception of scientific explanation
Delusions and Other Irrational Beliefs
While the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is psychiatry's premier guide to classifying and treating mental disorders, it is also renowned for the history and implications of its errata. Regarding delusions, the DSM partially defines them as ‘false beliefs based on incorrect inference about external reality’. But correctness is not a property inferences can bear, strictly speaking; and falsity cannot be a defining property, a…
HIT and brain reward function
Truth, explanation, minimalism
Rational analysis, intractability, and the prospects of ‘as if’-explanations
Minimalism about truth
Introduction to Scientific Reasoning
Why Do Teachers Connect Better With Some Students Than Others? Exploring the Influence of Teachers’ Creative-Thinking Preferences
Teacher–student connection is influenced by several factors and one possible factor is teachers’ creative - thinking preferences (CTP). The present study investigated the extent to which teachers’ CTP predicts their view of favorable student characteristics. Teachers’ CTP was measured by FourSight that featured four preferences: clarifying, ideating, developing, and implementing. Two hundred seventy-five teachers in the United States completed th…
First principles in the life sciences
The free-energy principle states that all systems that minimize their free energy resist a tendency to physical disintegration. Originally proposed to account for perception, learning, and action, the free-energy principle has been applied to the evolution, development, morphology, anatomy and function of the brain, and has been called a postulate , an unfalsifiable principle , a natural law , and an imperative . While it might afford a theoretic…
Mechanist idealisation in systems biology
Epistemology (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Metaphysics (7 works) · Philosophy of language (7 works) · Philosophy of science (7 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Cognitive science (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works)