Philosophical proponents of predictive processing cast the novelty of predictive models of
perception in terms of differences in the functional role and information content of neural …

There are many different notions of information in logic, epistemology, psychology, biology
and cognitive science, which are employed differently in each discipline, often with little …

The claims that “The brain processes information” or “Cognition is information processing”
are accepted as truisms in cognitive science. However, it is unclear how to evaluate such …

Abstract The Modern Synthesis has received criticism for its purported gene-centrism. That
criticism relies on a concept of the gene as a unit of instructional information. In this paper I …

Knowledge-how is the kind of knowledge implicated in skill employment and acquisition.
Intellectualists claim that knowledge-how is a special type of propositional knowledge. Anti …

Enactivism is a major research programme in the philosophy of perception. Yet its
metaphysical status is unclear, since it is claimed to avoid both idealism and realism yet still …

The idea that the brain is an information processing system raises some challenging
questions about whether information exists independently of brains. Answering these …

Does information exist in the world independently of brains and/or organisms that can
interpret it? Answering this question is important for clarifying the theoretical foundations of …