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BIOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY
Volume 34, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10539-019-9719-6
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Dynamical systems; Explanation; Cognition; Cognitive neuroscience
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Cognitive neuroscientists are turning to an increasingly rich array of neurodynamical systems to explain mental phenomena. In these explanations, cognitive capacities are decomposed into a set of functions, each of which is described mathematically, and then these descriptions are mapped on to corresponding mathematical descriptions of the dynamics of neural systems. In this paper, I outline a novel explanatory schema based on these explanations. I then argue that these explanations present a novel type of dynamicism for the philosophy of mind and neuroscience, componential dynamicism, that focuses on the parts of cognitive systems that fill certain functional roles in producing cognitive phenomena.
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