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Epistemological questions of the cognitive neurosciences

  • Alfredo Pereira Jr.
  • Alfredo Pereira Jr.

    Professor adjunto do Departamento de Educação do Instituto de Biociências da Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (Unesp), São Paulo, Brasil. Doutor em Lógica e Filosofia da Ciência pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Pós-Doutorado em Ciências do Cérebro e da Cognição no Massachusetts Institute of Technology.



Abstract

This essay pinpoints four key issues that are central to the epistemology of cognition-oriented neurosciences: the multiple levels of analysis in the study of the brain functions, the confrontation between the computational and dynamicist models; the proper treatment of the interactions among the brain, the body, and the environment; and the philosophical problems encountered in the attempts made to build a neurobiological theory of conscious and human language processes.

Keywords

epistemology,
cognitive neuroscience,
representations,
consciousness,
language

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