New Article (2025): Beyond Mechanism—Extending Our Concepts of Causation in Neuroscience

10 April 2025

New Article (2025): Beyond Mechanism—Extending Our Concepts of Causation in Neuroscience

Henry Potter and Kevin Mitchell challenge reductive views in neuroscience by introducing richer, temporally extended notions of causality. It argues for re-centering cognition and the organism as genuine causal agents in explanations of behavior. Read here. Abstract: In neuroscience, the search for the causes of behaviour is often just taken to be the search for […]

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New Paper (2023), J. Lee, Enactivism Meets Mechanism: Tensions & Congruities in Cognitive Science

22 February 2023

New Paper (2023), J. Lee,  Enactivism Meets Mechanism: Tensions & Congruities in Cognitive Science

Published Open Access in Minds and Machines Abstract: Enactivism advances an understanding of cognition rooted in the dynamic interac- tion between an embodied agent and their environment, whilst new mechanism sug- gests that cognition is explained by uncovering the organised components underlying cognitive capacities. On the face of it, the mechanistic model’s emphasis on localisable […]

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