Mikio Akagi
Biographic Data
| ID | 5966040 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mikio Akagi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mikio |
| FAMILY NAME | Akagi |
| SIGNATURE | AKAGI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas Christian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0996-487X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Structural Microaggressions for Explaining Outcome Gaps
Microaggressions are hypothesized to play a causal role in undesirable population effects such as racial health gaps, but the mechanisms through which this occurs are not yet well understood. I call inquiry about these mechanisms the “explanatory project.” I suggest that the explanatory project has been hindered by microaggression concepts tailored to be applicable under conditions of lived uncertainty, rather than to facilitate understanding of …
Cognition as the sensitive management of an agent’s behavior
Cognitive science is unusual in that cognitive scientists have dramatic disagreements about the extension of their object of study, cognition. This paper defends a novel analysis of the scientific concept of cognition: that cognition is the sensitive management of an agent’s behavior. This analysis is “modular,” so that its extension varies depending on how one interprets certain of its constituent terms. I argue that these variations correspond …
Microaggressions and Objectivity
Microaggressions are, roughly, acts or states of affairs that express prejudice or neglect toward members of oppressed groups in relatively subtle ways. There is an apparent consensus among both proponents and critics of the microaggression concept that microaggressions are “subjective.” We examine what subjectivity amounts to in this context and argue against this consensus. We distinguish between microaggressions as an explanatory posit and mic…
Beyond Concepts
In her latest book, Ruth Garrett Millikan articulates a contemporary, naturalist account of the conditions for the possibility of knowledge (with a nod to Kant for the question, but of course her approach is quite different). The book is not organized around a collection of central arguments, but around the exposition of a system—a theory of animal cognition based on the recognition of signs through mechanisms called ‘unitrackers’ and ‘unicepts’,…
Rethinking the problem of cognition
Rethinking the problem of cognition
Microaggressions and Objectivity
Microaggressions are, roughly, acts or states of affairs that express prejudice or neglect toward members of oppressed groups in relatively subtle ways. There is an apparent consensus among both proponents and critics of the microaggression concept that microaggressions are “subjective.” We examine what subjectivity amounts to in this context and argue against this consensus. We distinguish between microaggressions as an explanatory posit and mic…
Rethinking the problem of cognition
Beyond Concepts
In her latest book, Ruth Garrett Millikan articulates a contemporary, naturalist account of the conditions for the possibility of knowledge (with a nod to Kant for the question, but of course her approach is quite different). The book is not organized around a collection of central arguments, but around the exposition of a system—a theory of animal cognition based on the recognition of signs through mechanisms called ‘unitrackers’ and ‘unicepts’,…
Microaggressions and Objectivity
Microaggressions are, roughly, acts or states of affairs that express prejudice or neglect toward members of oppressed groups in relatively subtle ways. There is an apparent consensus among both proponents and critics of the microaggression concept that microaggressions are “subjective.” We examine what subjectivity amounts to in this context and argue against this consensus. We distinguish between microaggressions as an explanatory posit and mic…
Cognition as the sensitive management of an agent’s behavior
Cognitive science is unusual in that cognitive scientists have dramatic disagreements about the extension of their object of study, cognition. This paper defends a novel analysis of the scientific concept of cognition: that cognition is the sensitive management of an agent’s behavior. This analysis is “modular,” so that its extension varies depending on how one interprets certain of its constituent terms. I argue that these variations correspond …
Structural Microaggressions for Explaining Outcome Gaps
Microaggressions are hypothesized to play a causal role in undesirable population effects such as racial health gaps, but the mechanisms through which this occurs are not yet well understood. I call inquiry about these mechanisms the “explanatory project.” I suggest that the explanatory project has been hindered by microaggression concepts tailored to be applicable under conditions of lived uncertainty, rather than to facilitate understanding of …
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Action Observation and Synchronization (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Cognition (2 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Cognitive science (2 works) · Embodied and Extended Cognition (2 works)