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Prof. Dr. Beate Krickel
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Room: H 7153
Email: beate.krickel(at)tu-berlin.de
Office hours via Zoom.
Please send me an email.
personal website: beatekrickel.com
Online-Workshop "Representation, Computation, Mechanism: What is the Best Explanation of Cognition?"
Thursday, 20. August 2020
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Student Workshop with Carrie Figdor
Wednesday, 15. July 2020
15:30-15:35 Introduction
15:35-15:50 Johanna Kalder, Nikita Kellermann, Vittorio di Fraia: tba.
15:50-16:00 Reply Carrie Figdor + Q&A
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16:05-16:25 Philipp Fehse, Valentin Greggersen, Dennis Rollmann, Markus Vorreyer: tba.
16:25-16:35 Reply Carrie Figdor + Q&A
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16:40-16:55 Mehmetekin Demir, Rodolfo Gomez Cabrales, Sharon Mantel: tba.
16:55-17:05 Reply Carrie Figdor + Q&A
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17:20-18:30 Carrie Figdor "What is cognition, if not human cognition?" + Q&A
Carrie Figdor:What is cognition, if not human cognition?
We have long thought about cognition from an anthropocentric perspective, where human cognition is treated as the standard for full-fledged capacities throughout the biological world. This makes no evolutionary sense. I will discuss the theoretical and methodological shifts away from this perspective in comparative research — shifts that lie behind recent discoveries of advanced cognition in many non-humans — and how these changes bear on the debate between those who see human and non-human cognition as continuous (a difference in degree) vs. those who see them as discontinuous (a difference in kind).