Kenneth Aizawa
Biographic Data
| ID | 962508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth Aizawa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth |
| FAMILY NAME | Aizawa |
| SIGNATURE | AIZAWA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centenary College of Louisiana |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7143-4901 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Error detection is not necessary for representation
Some philosophers have recently proposed an error detection condition (EDC) for representation, such that for to be a representation for system , must be capable of detecting errors in tokenings of . We argue that this condition is unmotivated, and that it is too strong. We show that theories of representation that are committed to the EDC will fail to capture cases of representation proposed to account for visual illusions
Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation
Abduction and Composition
Some New Mechanists have proposed that claims of compositional relations are justified by combining the results of top-down and bottom-up interlevel interventions. But what do scientists do when they can perform, say, a cellular intervention, but not a subcellular detection? In such cases, paired interlevel interventions are unavailable. We propose that scientists use abduction and we illustrate its use through a case study of the ionic theory of…
Some theoretical and empirical background to Fodor’s systematicity arguments
This paper aims to clarify certain features of the systematicity arguments by a review of some of the largely underexamined background in Chomsky’s and Fodor’s early work on transformational grammar
Defending pluralism about compositional explanations
Critical Note
This chapter provides a brief review and commentary on the account of cognition offered in Di Paolo and Kiverstein. It notes that Rietveld, Denys, and van Westen do not say much about cognition per se. Instead, they are concerned with skilled action. Finally, it notes how Hutto and Myin apparently pursue the view that cognition is behavior, though decline to provide reasons for the view.
Multiple realization and multiple “ways” of realization
Cognition and behavior
Warren McCulloch’s Turn to Cybernetics
This paper explores part of the making of a cyberneticist. It examines Walter Pitts’ contribution to two of McCulloch’s most celebrated publications, ‘A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity’ and ‘How we Know Universals: the Perception of Auditory and Visual Forms’. What we find, in part, is that Pitts provided mathematical clarity and rigor to McCulloch’s views on psychons and circular causality
Defending the Bounds of Cognition
This chapter discusses the flaws of Clark’s extended mind hypothesis. Clark’s hypothesis assumes that the nature of the processes internal to an object has nothing to do with whether that object carries out cognitive processing. The only condition required is that the object is coupled with a cognitive agent and interacts with it in a certain way. In making this tenuous connection, Clark commits the most common mistake extended mind theorists mak…
Computation in cognitive science
Neuroscience and multiple realization
Supersizing the Mind
Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension – Andy Clark Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension. Andy Clark, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. xxix + 286. Price £22.50.) Kenneth Aizawa Kenneth Aizawa Centenary College of Louisiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 240, July 2010, Pages 662–664, https://do…
Walter Pitts and “A Logical Calculus”
The Biochemistry of Memory Consolidation
The bounds of cognition
Recent work in cognitive science has suggested that there are actual cases in which cognitive processes extend in the physical world beyond the bounds of the brain and the body. We argue that, while transcranial cognition may be both a logical and a nomological possibility, no case has been made for its current existence. In other words, we defend a form of contingent intracranialism about the cognitive.
The Role of the Systematicity Argument in Classicism and Connectionism
The Gap Between Science and Policy in The Bell Curve
In The Bell Curve, Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray sketch various social policy reforms that they take to be suggested or implied by their purported scientific findings concerning IQ, race, class, and social structure. By and large, scientists have done a fine job of drawing attention to the many empirical inadequacies and flaws in The Bell Curve. This, of course, significantly undermines the case for many of Hernnstein and Murray's social …
Representations without rules, connectionism and the syntactic argument
Cognition and behavior
Multiple realization and multiple “ways” of realization
Defending pluralism about compositional explanations
The Biochemistry of Memory Consolidation
Computation in cognitive science
Walter Pitts and “A Logical Calculus”
Representations without rules, connectionism and the syntactic argument
Representations without rules, connectionism and the syntactic argument
The Gap Between Science and Policy in The Bell Curve
In The Bell Curve, Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray sketch various social policy reforms that they take to be suggested or implied by their purported scientific findings concerning IQ, race, class, and social structure. By and large, scientists have done a fine job of drawing attention to the many empirical inadequacies and flaws in The Bell Curve. This, of course, significantly undermines the case for many of Hernnstein and Murray's social …
The Role of the Systematicity Argument in Classicism and Connectionism
The bounds of cognition
Recent work in cognitive science has suggested that there are actual cases in which cognitive processes extend in the physical world beyond the bounds of the brain and the body. We argue that, while transcranial cognition may be both a logical and a nomological possibility, no case has been made for its current existence. In other words, we defend a form of contingent intracranialism about the cognitive.
The Biochemistry of Memory Consolidation
Walter Pitts and “A Logical Calculus”
Neuroscience and multiple realization
Supersizing the Mind
Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension – Andy Clark Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension. Andy Clark, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. xxix + 286. Price £22.50.) Kenneth Aizawa Kenneth Aizawa Centenary College of Louisiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 240, July 2010, Pages 662–664, https://do…
Defending the Bounds of Cognition
This chapter discusses the flaws of Clark’s extended mind hypothesis. Clark’s hypothesis assumes that the nature of the processes internal to an object has nothing to do with whether that object carries out cognitive processing. The only condition required is that the object is coupled with a cognitive agent and interacts with it in a certain way. In making this tenuous connection, Clark commits the most common mistake extended mind theorists mak…
Computation in cognitive science
Warren McCulloch’s Turn to Cybernetics
This paper explores part of the making of a cyberneticist. It examines Walter Pitts’ contribution to two of McCulloch’s most celebrated publications, ‘A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity’ and ‘How we Know Universals: the Perception of Auditory and Visual Forms’. What we find, in part, is that Pitts provided mathematical clarity and rigor to McCulloch’s views on psychons and circular causality
Cognition and behavior
Critical Note
This chapter provides a brief review and commentary on the account of cognition offered in Di Paolo and Kiverstein. It notes that Rietveld, Denys, and van Westen do not say much about cognition per se. Instead, they are concerned with skilled action. Finally, it notes how Hutto and Myin apparently pursue the view that cognition is behavior, though decline to provide reasons for the view.
Multiple realization and multiple “ways” of realization
Defending pluralism about compositional explanations
Some theoretical and empirical background to Fodor’s systematicity arguments
This paper aims to clarify certain features of the systematicity arguments by a review of some of the largely underexamined background in Chomsky’s and Fodor’s early work on transformational grammar
Abduction and Composition
Some New Mechanists have proposed that claims of compositional relations are justified by combining the results of top-down and bottom-up interlevel interventions. But what do scientists do when they can perform, say, a cellular intervention, but not a subcellular detection? In such cases, paired interlevel interventions are unavailable. We propose that scientists use abduction and we illustrate its use through a case study of the ionic theory of…
Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation
Error detection is not necessary for representation
Some philosophers have recently proposed an error detection condition (EDC) for representation, such that for to be a representation for system , must be capable of detecting errors in tokenings of . We argue that this condition is unmotivated, and that it is too strong. We show that theories of representation that are committed to the EDC will fail to capture cases of representation proposed to account for visual illusions
Philosophy (15 works) · Epistemology (14 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Cognitive science (12 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (8 works) · Cognition (7 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (6 works) · Metaphysics (5 works) · Neuroscience (5 works)