This book explores how predictive processing, which argues that our brains are constantly generating and updating hypotheses about our external conditions, sheds new light on the nature of the mind. It shows how it is similar to and expands other theoretical approaches that emphasize the active role of the mind and its dynamic function.
Offering a complete guide to the philosophical and empirical implications of predictive processing, contributors bring perspectives from philosophy, neuroscience, and psychology. Together, they explore the many philosophical applications of predictive processing and its exciting potential across mental health, cognitive science, neuroscience, and robotics.
Presenting an extensive and balanced overview of the subject, The Philosophy and Science of Predictive Processing is a landmark volume within philosophy of mind.
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This volume highlights one of the key bridges of our time, predictive coding. It brings together different perspectives by leading figures in both fields of neuroscience and philosophy, making it unique and a must-read for everybody interested in bridging the gap of neuroscience and philosophy. * Georg Northoff, Michael Smith Chair in Neurosciences and Mental Health, Institute of Mental Health Research, University of Ottawa, Canada * Though relative newcomers to the field, predictive processing accounts of mind, cognition, self and psychopathology are already establishing their secure place in the philosophical and scientific landscape. They must be reckoned with, and this fine and timely collection does just that. Drawing together defenders and critics, its chapters ask the crucial questions. Anyone aiming to get on top this exciting intellectual development will want to read the first-rate set of contributions in this outstanding volume. * Daniel D. Hutto, Senior Professor of Philosophical Psychology, University of Wollongong, Australia *
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Dina Mendonca is Researcher at the New University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Manuel Curado is Professor at the University of Minho, Portugal.
Steven S. Gouveia is Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Mind, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics Unit of the Royal Institute of Mental Health, University of Ottawa, Canada.
Herausgeber*in
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
University of Minho, Portugal
University of Porto, Portugal
List of Contributors
Preface: The Brain as a Prediction Machine, Anil Seth
Introduction, Dina Mendonca, Manuel Curado & Steven S. Gouveia
Part I: Predictive Processing: Philosophical Approaches
1. Predictive Processing and Representation: How Less Can Be More, Erik Myin and Thomas van Es
2. A Humean Challenge to Predictive Coding, Colin Klein
3. Are Markov Blankets Real and Does it Matter?, Richard Menary and Alexander J. Gillett
4. Predictive Processing and Metaphysical Views of the Self, Robert Clowes and Klaus Gaertner
Part II: Predictive Processing: Cognitive Science and Neuroscientific Approaches
5. From the Retina to Action: Dynamics of Predictive Processing in the Visual System, Laurent Perrinet
6. Predictive Processing and Consciousness: Prediction Fallacy and its Spatiotemporal Resolution, Steven S. Gouveia
7. The Many Faces of Attention: Why Precision Optimization is not Attention, Sina Fazelpour and Madeleine Ransom
8. Predictive Processing: Does it Compute?, Chris Thornton
Part III: Predictive Processing: Mental Health
9. The Predictive Brain, Conscious Experience and Brain-related Conditions, Lisa Feldman Barrett and Lorena Chanes
10. Disconnection and Diaschisis: Active Inference in Neuropsychology, Thomas Parr and Karl Friston
11. The Phenomenology and Predictive Processing of Time in Depression, Zachariah Neemeh and Shaun Gallagher
12. Why Use Predictive Processing to Explain Psychopathology? The Case of Anorexia Nervosa, Jakob Hohwy and Stephen Gadsby
Afterword, Manuel Curado
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