Please distribute to others who may be interested... You are hereby invited to a seminar in our twelfth interdisciplinary series on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108> (ECCO 2016-2017) <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marjoriikka_Ylisiurua>
Time: Friday December 9, 14h-16h Place: *room * *D.1.07*, building D, VUB ------------------------------ Demarcating mathematical understanding and the understanding subject *Sven Delariviere <https://cris.cumulus.vub.ac.be/portal/en/persons/sven-delariviere(a820e917-0ea6-44eb-a6ca-20f62dde6e0b).html>* *Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), CLWF* Abstract: The aim of this presentation is to strengthen the functional reading of mathematical understanding and contribute a fruitful explicitation on the notion of an understanding subject. The functional reading equates understanding with the possession of abilities, thereby sidelining the feeling of understanding so distrusted about the notion. However, the functional account is open to a concern Searle raised with the Chinese Room Argument - here adapted to a Math Room Argument - and related concerns regarding rule-following (e.g. Skemp's "rules without reason") as instances of abilities without understanding. In response, I argue that such concerns disappear once we specify the stability and scope of abilities (not to be mistaken with the seeming stability and scope of kludges), and demarcate the subject who possesses the understanding. This demarcation, I will further argue (in the same vein as the Virtual Mind Reply to Searle's argument), is to be addressed in terms of a functional as well as virtual internal/external divide. With this, the way is paved to consider unconventional entities (e.g. instances of extended, collective or artificial cognition) as relevant subjects for epistemology. ------------------------------ Upcoming Seminars *December 16th* De Couvreur Lieven Adaptation by Product Hacking See also the ECCO/GBI calendar <https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=azMyN252aWluM2JoMnU3MXY5OGt2ZzliOGdAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ> . You can add this calendar to your calendar application through here <https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/k327nviin3bh2u71v98kvg9b8g%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics> More info about the ECCO seminar program: http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108 <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108> -- Cadell ECCO Group (VUB) <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/1> Email: [email protected] Website: https://cadelllast.com
