Dear all, A reminder that this Thursday (27th April, tomorrow), Joe Dewhurst from the University of Edinburgh will be talking on "Folk Psychology and the Bayesian Brain" (abstract below) at the Serious Metaphysics Group.
As usual, we will meet in the Faculty Board room in the Philosophy Faculty from 1-2.30pm. Joe's presentation will last for 45 minutes, followed by roughly 45 minutes of discussion. Feel free to bring your lunch along. All welcome! Best, Dan. Abstract: This talk will consider the relationship between predictive processing and folk psychology. I will first give a brief overview of the predictive processing framework, which reconceives of cognition as a process of predicting incoming sensory data and attempting to minimize prediction errors. I will then distinguish between two ways of thinking about folk psychology: narrowly, as propositional attitude psychology, and more broadly, as a loose set of cognitive capacities and cultural practices that allow us to understand one another. I will argue that whilst folk psychology in the narrow, propositional attitude sense is unlikely to be (entirely) compatible with predictive processing, this does not mean that folk psychology in the broader sense should be revised or eliminated. -- Daniel Williams PhD Candidate in Philosophy Email: [email protected] Trinity Hall, Cambridge _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
