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    Copredication in Context: A Predictive Processing Approach.Guido Löhr & Christian Michel - 2022 - Cognitive Science 46 (5):e13138.
    Cognitive Science, Volume 46, Issue 5, May 2022.
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    Overcoming the modal/amodal dichotomy of concepts.Christian Michel - 2021 - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 20 (4):655-677.
    The debate about the nature of the representational format of concepts seems to have reached an impasse. The debate faces two fundamental problems. Firstly, amodalists (i.e., those who argue that concepts are represented by amodal symbols) and modalists (i.e., those who see concepts as involving crucially representations including sensorimotor information) claim that the same empirical evidence is compatible with their views. Secondly, there is no shared understanding of what a modal or amodal format amounts to. Both camps recognize that the (...)
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    Conceptual engineering, predictive processing, and a new implementation problem.Guido Löhr & Christian Michel - 2024 - Mind and Language 39 (2):201-219.
    According to predictive processing, an increasingly influential paradigm in cognitive science, the function of the brain is to minimize the prediction error of its sensory input. Conceptual engineering is the practice of assessing and changing concepts or word meanings. We contribute to both strands of research by proposing the first cognitive account of conceptual engineering, using the predictive processing framework. Our model reveals a new kind of implementation problem as prediction errors are only minimized if enough agents embrace conceptual changes. (...)
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    Concept contextualism through the lens of Predictive Processing.Christian Michel - 2020 - Philosophical Psychology 33 (4):624-647.
    Concept contextualism is the view that the information associated with a concept is dependent on the context in which it is tokened. This view is gaining support in recent years. The received and c...
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    Predictive embodied concepts: an exploration of higher cognition within the predictive processing paradigm.Christian Michel - 2023 - Dissertation, University of Edinburgh
    Predictive processing, an increasingly popular paradigm in cognitive sciences, has focused primarily on giving accounts of perception, motor control and a host of psychological phenomena, including consciousness. But higher cognitive processes, like conceptual thought, language, and logic, have received only limited attention to date and PP still stands disconnected from a huge body of research in those areas. In this thesis, I aim to address this gap and I attempt to go some way towards developing and defending a cognitive-computational approach (...)
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    (1 other version)The Liar Paradox in the predictive mind.Christian Michel - 2019 - Pragmatics and Cognition 26 (2-3):239-266.
    Most discussions frame the Liar Paradox as a formal logical-linguistic puzzle. Attempts to resolve the paradox have focused very little so far on aspects of cognitive psychology and processing, because semantic and cognitive-psychological issues are generally assumed to be disjunct. I provide a motivation and carry out a cognitive-computational treatment of the liar paradox based on a cognitive-computational model of language and conceptual knowledge within the Predictive Processing framework. I suggest that the paradox arises as a failure of synchronization between (...)
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    A Hybrid Account of Concepts Within the Predictive Processing Paradigm.Christian Michel - 2023 - Review of Philosophy and Psychology 14 (4):1349-1375.
    We seem to learn and use concepts in a variety of heterogenous “formats”, including exemplars, prototypes, and theories. Different strategies have been proposed to account for this diversity. Hybridists consider instances in different formats to be instances of a single concept. Pluralists think that each instance in a different format is a different concept. Eliminativists deny that the different instances in different formats pertain to a scientifically fruitful kind and recommend eliminating the notion of a “concept” entirely. In recent years, (...)
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    Scaling up Predictive Processing to language with Construction Grammar.Christian Michel - 2023 - Philosophical Psychology 36 (3):553-579.
    Predictive Processing (PP) is an increasingly influential neurocognitive-computational framework. PP research has so far focused predominantly on lower level perceptual, motor, and various psychological phenomena. But PP seems to face a “scale-up challenge”: How can it be extended to conceptual thought, language, and other higher cognitive competencies? Compositionality, arguably a central feature of conceptual thought, cannot easily be accounted for in PP because it is not couched in terms of classical symbol processing. I argue, using the example of language, that (...)
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    Literalism in Autistic People: a Predictive Processing Proposal.Agustín Vicente, Christian Michel & Valentina Petrolini - forthcoming - Review of Philosophy and Psychology:1-24.
    Autistic individuals are commonly said – and also consider themselves – to be excessively literalist, in the sense that they tend to prefer literal interpretations of words and utterances. This literalist bias seems to be fairly specific to autism and still lacks a convincing explanation. In this paper we explore a novel hypothesis that has the potential to account for the literalist bias in autism. We argue that literalism results from an atypical functioning of the predictive system: specifically, an atypical (...)
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    What could concepts be in the Predictive Processing framework?Christian Michel - unknown
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    Copredication and Complexity Revisited: Reply to Murphy's Reply.Christian Michel & Guido Löhr - 2023 - Cognitive Science 47 (2):e13249.
    In Löhr and Michel (2022), we proposed a neurocognitive model within the predictive processing paradigm for acceptability intuitions about copredication sentences. We also addressed “predicate order effects,” the phenomenon that the acceptability of copredication sentences can vary with the order in which the predicates occur. We discussed Murphy's interpretation of order preferences based on a hierarchy of semantic complexity and tried to motivate that other interpretations are worthwhile pursuing. In a reply letter, Murphy (2022) takes issue with our approach, putting (...)
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    Towards a new standard model of concepts?Christian Michel - forthcoming - Philosophical Psychology.
    Guy Dove’s book is about the puzzle of how our minds can represent and process abstract concepts. Abstract concepts have posed a problem for the influential view of the embodied mind and grounded c...
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    Charles-Nicolas Cochin et l'art des lumières.Christian Michel - 1993 - Ecole Française de Rome.
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  14. La Naissance de la Théorie de l'Art En France, 1640-1720.Christian Michel & Maryvonne Saison - 1997 - Jean-Michel Place.
     
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    Why predictive processing matters The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality, by Andy Clark, Pantheon Books, New York, 2023, 304 pp., $30.00, ISBN 9781524748456. [REVIEW]Christian Michel - forthcoming - Philosophical Psychology.
    Clark’s “The Experience Machine” provides the first book-length introduction to predictive processing (PP) aimed at a broad and general audience (but it is also recommended for those already famili...
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