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  1. Is predictive processing a theory of perceptual consciousness?Tomas Marvan & Marek Havlík - 2021 - New Ideas in Psychology 61 (21).
    Predictive Processing theory, hotly debated in neuroscience, psychology and philosophy, promises to explain a number of perceptual and cognitive phenomena in a simple and elegant manner. In some of its versions, the theory is ambitiously advertised as a new theory of conscious perception. The task of this paper is to assess whether this claim is realistic. We will be arguing that the Predictive Processing theory cannot explain the transition from unconscious to conscious perception in its proprietary terms. The explanations offer (...)
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    Unitary and dual models of phenomenal consciousness.Tomáš Marvan & Michal Polák - 2017 - Consciousness and Cognition 56:1-12.
  3. Apical amplification—a cellular mechanism of conscious perception?Tomas Marvan, Michal Polák, Talis Bachmann & William A. Phillips - 2021 - Neuroscience of Consciousness 7 (2):1-17.
    We present a theoretical view of the cellular foundations for network-level processes involved in producing our conscious experience. Inputs to apical synapses in layer 1 of a large subset of neocortical cells are summed at an integration zone near the top of their apical trunk. These inputs come from diverse sources and provide a context within which the transmission of information abstracted from sensory input to their basal and perisomatic synapses can be amplified when relevant. We argue that apical amplification (...)
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    Neural Correlates of Consciousness Meet the Theory of Identity.Michal Polák & Tomáš Marvan - 2018 - Frontiers in Psychology 9:381399.
    One of the greatest challenges of consciousness research is to understand the relationship between consciousness and its implementing substrate. Current research into the neural correlates of consciousness regards the biological brain as being this substrate, but largely fails to clarify the nature of the brain-consciousness connection. A popular approach within this research is to construe brain-consciousness correlations in causal terms: the neural correlates of consciousness are the causes of states of consciousness. After introducing the notion of the neural correlate of (...)
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  5. Cellular Mechanisms of Cooperative Context-Sensitive Predictive Inference.Tomas Marvan & William Alfred Phillips - 2024 - Current Research in Neurobiology 6.
    We argue that prediction success maximization is a basic objective of cognition and cortex, that it is compatible with but distinct from prediction error minimization, that neither objective requires subtractive coding, that there is clear neurobiological evidence for the amplification of predicted signals, and that we are unconvinced by evidence proposed in support of subtractive coding. We outline recent discoveries showing that pyramidal cells on which our cognitive capabilities depend usually transmit information about input to their basal dendrites and amplify (...)
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  6. Generality and content-specificity in the study of the neural correlates of perceptual consciousness.Tomas Marvan - 2020 - Philosophy and the Mind Sciences 1 (2).
    The present paper was written as a contribution to ongoing methodological debates within the NCC project. We focus on the neural correlates of conscious perceptual episodes. Our claim is that the NCC notion, as applied to conscious perceptual episodes, needs to be reconceptualized. It mixes together the processing related to the perceived contents and the neural substrate of consciousness proper, i.e. mechanisms making the perceptual contents conscious. We thus propose that the perceptual NCC be divided into two constitutive subnotions. The (...)
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    How to Mitigate the Hard Problem by Adopting the Dual Theory of Phenomenal Consciousness.Michal Polák & Tomáš Marvan - 2019 - Frontiers in Psychology 10.
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    Defending internalism about unconscious phenomenal character.Tomáš Marvan & Sam Coleman - 2024 - Synthese 203 (5):1-18.
    Two important questions arise concerning the properties that constitute the phenomenal characters of our experiences: first, where these properties exist, and, second, whether they are tied to our consciousness of them. Such properties can either exist externally to the perceiving subject, or internally to her. This article argues that phenomenal characters, and specifically the phenomenal characters of colours, may exist independently of consciousness and that they are internal to the subject. We defend this combination of claims against a recent criticism (...)
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    Davidson's Triangulation: Content‐Endowing Causes and Circularity.Maria Lasonen & Tomas Marvan - 2004 - International Journal of Philosophical Studies 12 (2):177-195.
    In this article we aim to reconstruct some aspects of Davidson's idea of triangulation, and against this reconstruction, ask whether the idea is viciously circular. We begin by looking at the claim that without a triangularn setting, there is no saying what the cause of a being's responses is. In the first section we discuss the notion of relevant similarity, and what difference the presence of a second non‐linguistic being could make for the individuation of a common focus of attention. (...)
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  10. Robert B. Brandom, Articulating Reasons. An Introduction to Inferentialism.Tomáš Marvan - 2002 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 9 (4):469-472.
  11. Was Wegner Rejecting Mental Causality?Tomas Marvan - manuscript
    Abstract: Daniel Wegner’s theory of apparent mental causation is often misread. His aim was not to question the causal effectiveness of conscious mental states like intentions. Rather, he attempted to show that our subjective sense of agency is not a completely reliable indicator of the actual causality of action, and needs to be replaced by more objective means of inquiry.
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  12. Morálka, věda a morální věda.Tomáš Marvan - 2011 - Teorie Vědy / Theory of Science 33 (3):481-497.
    Studie recenzuje díla: Sam HARRIS, The Moral Landscape a Patricia Smith CHURCHLAND, Braintrust. Cílem recenzní stati je vyzdvihnout hlubokou shodu v naturalistickém pojetí etiky u obou autorů a upozornit na některé nedostatky jejich argumentace.
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    The Default Mode Network and the Problem of Determining Intrinsic Mental Contents.Marek Havlík & Tomáš Marvan - 2015 - Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 40 (1):145-160.
    We provide a brief overview of the shift toward the intrinsic view of brain activity, describing in particular the structural and functional connectivity patterns of the “Default mode network”. We then consider the Default mode network in a specifically cognitive setting and ask what changes the focus on the Default mode network and other sorts of intrinsic activity require from models put forward by cognitive neuroscientists.
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  14. (1 other version)Searle on External Realism and “Privileged Conceptual Scheme”.Tomáš Marvan - 2012 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 19:31-39.
     
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    Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology.Tomas Marvan, Hanne Andersen, Hasok Chang, Benedikt Löwe & Ivo Pezlar (eds.) - 2022 - London: College Publications.
    This volume contains papers based on invited lectures from the 16th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology, descriptions of congress symposia, and other materials relating to the congress and DLMPST.
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  16. Reference a realismus pohledem fenomenologie a analytické filosofie.Ivan Blecha & Tomas Marvan - 2009 - Reflexe: Filosoficky Casopis 36:93-114.
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    Alex Rosenberg The Atheist’s Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life without Illusions.Stefanie Dach & Tomáš Marvan - 2014 - Science & Education 23 (3):695-706.
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  18. Anton Hügli, Poul Lübcke : Philosophielexikon.Tomáš Marvan - 1998 - Filosoficky Casopis 46:500-502.
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  19. Brandomian Aporia (and One Way Out).Tomas Marvan - 2002 - Danish Yearbook of Philosophy 37.
     
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  20. Davidson's arguments againts empiricism.Tomas Marvan - 2009 - Filosoficky Casopis 57:63-78.
     
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  21. Descartes and His Contemporaries.Tomas Marvan - 2000 - Acta Comeniana 14:271-278.
     
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  22. Donald Davidson: Čin, mysel, jazyk.Tomáš Marvan - 1999 - Filosoficky Casopis 47:317-320.
    [Donald Davidson: Action, Thought and Language.].
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    Dva současné pohledy na kognitivní relativismus.Tomáš Marvan - 2010 - Filosofie Dnes 2 (1):45-53.
    Tato kritická studie se zabývá dvěma současnými knihami o epistemickém relativismu, Boghossianovou Fear of Knowledge a Halesovou Relativism and the Foundations of Philosophy. První z těchto prací se přesvědčivě pokouší vyvrátit populární relativistické a konstruktivistické teze, zatímco ta druhá předkládá obhajobu specifické formy relativismu zaměřené na filosofické propozice.
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    Dvě verze pojmového relativismu.Tomáš Marvan - 2003 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 10 (2):148-156.
    The paper distinguishes between various versions of conceptual relativism and tries to reduce their number to two final alternatives: those of weak and strong conceptual relativism. The author argues that while a weak, pluralist version of conceptual relativity might be acceptable, the stronger version, as defined in the paper, cannot be coherently formulated. The argument of the paper draws on recent criticism of conceptual relativism by Anthony Brueckner, and tries to extend it further.
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    Explanandum teorie vědomí: marné hledání konsenzu?Tomáš Marvan - 2018 - Filosofie Dnes 9 (2):60-73.
    Text kriticky hodnotí tvrzení o pojmu fenomenálního vědomí, která jsou obsažena v šesté kapitole knihy Tomáše Hříbka Jaké to je, nebo o čem to je? Mým východiskem je teze Erica Schwitzgebela, že fenomenální vědomí můžeme definovat natolik neutrálně a minimalisticky, že se na jeho existenci mohou shodnout i teoretikové vědomí z velmi rozdílných táborů. Hříbek tento názor nesdílí, snažím se ale ukázat, že na základě lichých argumentů. Značnou pozornost v textu věnuji názorům Daniela Dennetta na podstatu vědomí, především pak „iluzionismu“ (...)
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  26. Gábor Forrai, Reference, Truth and Conceptual Schemes. A Defense of Internal Realism.Tomáš Marvan - 2003 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 10 (2):227-231.
     
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    (1 other version)Interpretability, Perceptual Sensibilities and Triangulation.Tomas Marvan - 2002 - SATS 3 (2):93-107.
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    Is Rorty a linguistic idealist?Tomáš Marvan - 2011 - Human Affairs 21 (3):272-279.
    The paper addresses the recurrent charge that Richard Rorty is a “linguistic idealist”. I show what the charge consists of and try to explain that there is a charitable reading of Rorty’s works, according to which he is not guilty of linguistic idealism. This reading draws on Putnam’s well-known conception of “internal realism” and accounts for the causal independence of the world on our linguistic practices. I also show how we can reconcile this causal independence of things and the sense (...)
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  29. L. H. Nelson – J. Nelson, Quine.Tomáš Marvan - 2007 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 14 (1):126-128.
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    Lze rozřešit spor mezi realismem a konstruktivismem?Tomáš Marvan - 2016 - Filosofie Dnes 7 (2):96-103.
    Text se formou polemiky zabývá otázkou, zda je možné rozřešit filozofický spor mezi realismem a konstruktivismem. Oproti mínění Jaroslava Peregrina hájí autor tezi, že tento spor rozřešit lze, a to ve prospěch realismu. Argumenty pro realismus jsou výrazně přesvědčivější, zatímco konstruktivistické argumenty nejsou ničím podložené a zároveň vedou k absurdním důsledkům. The text adresses, in a polemical fashion, the question whether the philosophical dispute between realism and constructivism can be resolved. Against the opinion of Jaroslav Peregrin, the author defends the (...)
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    On Brandomian aporia (and one way out).Tomáš Marvan - 2002 - Danish Yearbook of Philosophy 37 (1):93.
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    Obstacles to the Relativity of Truth.Tomáš Marvan - 2006 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 13 (4):439-450.
    The introductory section of the paper attempts to clarify the theoretical frame-work of truth-relativism. The paper then presents three obstacles to those who would like to relativise truth of a statement. These concern the distinction between absolutely and relatively true statements, the identity of a proposition across different perspectives and the possibility of distinguishing between various ways of construing the truth predicate.
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  33. One world is enough. A note on Goodman's notion of many actual worlds.Tomas Marvan - 2012 - Filosoficky Casopis 60:45-53.
     
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  34. Poznámka editorů.Tomáš Marvan & David Mik - 2002 - Filosoficky Casopis 50:356-358.
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    Putnamovy realismy a pojmová relativita.Tomáš Marvan - 2006 - Studia Neoaristotelica 3 (1):3-16.
    The aim of the paper is twofold. First, it expounds the thesis of ‘conceptual relativity’ propounded in a series of writings of the well-known philosopher Hilary Putnam and indicates the alleged manner in which the thesis, according to Putnam, undermines the foundations of metaphysical realism (understood in a peculiar way spelled out in the paper). Second, a critical examination of Putnam’s anti-metaphysical-realist argument is offered. It is argued that Putnam offers examples only of a trivial, so-called indexical relativity, and that (...)
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    Pojem reprezentace: Rorty vs. "novověká tradice".Tomáš Marvan - 2011 - Pro-Fil 11 (2):2-11.
    Článek na příkladu názorů R. Descarta a J. Locka zkoumá, nakolik adekvátní je Rortyho kritická interpretace novověké „reprezentační epistemologie“. Autor postupně probírá čtyři Rortyho hlavní argumenty a dospívá k závěru, že některé z nich se míjí s názory raně novověkých filosofů.
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  37. Quine a realismus.Tomas Marvan - 2006 - Reflexe: Filosoficky Casopis 31:61-76.
    Článek se pokouší o koherentní interpretaci Quinových nečetných vyjádření na téma realismus. Autor konstatuje, že Quinovy názory vykazují různorodé tendence: Quine ve svých textech přechází od úvah, které bychom označili za idealistické , k pozici spíš realistické. Článek má dvě části. První je věnována Quinovu chápání positů a jeho tezím o naturalizaci filosofie a imanenci pravdy teorii. Druhá část pak obsahuje úvahu o Quinově známé tezi o nevymezitelnosti reference a jejích důsledcích pro otázku realismu. Autor dochází k závěru, že diskrepance (...)
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  38. Quine, Goodman a otázka mnohosti světů.Tomáš Marvan - 2009 - Filosoficky Casopis 57:93-103.
    [Quine, Goodman and the question of the plurality of worlds].
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  39. Rortyho nepokojné cesty po filosofii.Tomas Marvan - 2007 - Reflexe: Filosoficky Casopis 33:3-7.
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  40. Richard Rorty: Filozofia a zrkadlo prírody.Tomáš Marvan - 2001 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 8 (1):107-111.
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  41. Svoboda, pojmy a pravidla: ještě k Brandomovu Articulating Reasons.Tomáš Marvan - 2003 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 10 (4):446-449.
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  42. (1 other version)The Davidson—Quine Dispute on Meaning and Knowledge: A Concise Guide.Tomas Marvan - 2007 - Theory of Science 16 (1).
  43. The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning; The Oxford Francis Bacon XIII: The Instauratio Magna: Last Writings.Tomas Marvan - 2002 - Acta Comeniana 15:372-373.
     
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  44. What Determines Content?Tomáš Marvan - 2010 - Filosoficky Casopis 58:443-446.
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    Conscious and Unconscious Mentality: Examining Their Nature, Similarities and Differences.Michal Polák, Tomáš Marvan & Juraj Hvorecký (eds.) - 2023 - New York, NY: Routledge.
    In this collection of essays, experts in the field of consciousness research shed light on the intricate relationship between conscious and unconscious states of mind. Advancing the debate on consciousness research, this book puts centre stage the topic of commonalities and differences between conscious and unconscious contents of the mind. The collection of cutting-edge chapters offers a breadth of research perspectives, with some arguing that unconscious states have been unjustly overlooked and deserve recognition for their richness and wide scope. Others (...)
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  46. The World of Language and the World beyond Language (A Festschrift for Pavel Cmorej).Tomas Marvan & M. Zouhar (eds.) - 2007
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  47. Book Review. [REVIEW]Tomas Marvan - 1999 - Acta Comeniana 13:244-248.
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