58 found
Order:
Disambiguations
Frederick Adams [45]Frederick R. Adams [15]Frederick Ray Adams [1]Frederick Adams [1]
  1. The Bounds of Cognition.Frederick Adams & Kenneth Aizawa - 2008 - Malden, MA, USA: Wiley-Blackwell. Edited by Kenneth Aizawa.
  2. Defending the bounds of cognition.Frederick R. Adams & Kenneth Aizawa - 2010 - In Richard Menary (ed.), The Extended Mind. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press.
    That about sums up what is wrong with Clark's view.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   45 citations  
  3. Intention and Intentional Action: The Simple View.Frederick Adams - 1986 - Mind and Language 1 (4):281-301.
  4. Fodorian Semantics. Adams, Frederick & Kenneth Aizawa - 1994 - In Stephen P. Stich & Ted A. Warfield (eds.), Mental Representation: A Reader. Cambridge, USA: Blackwell.
  5. The informational turn in philosophy.Frederick Adams - 2003 - Minds and Machines 13 (4):471-501.
    This paper traces the application of information theory to philosophical problems of mind and meaning from the earliest days of the creation of the mathematical theory of communication. The use of information theory to understand purposive behavior, learning, pattern recognition, and more marked the beginning of the naturalization of mind and meaning. From the inception of information theory, Wiener, Turing, and others began trying to show how to make a mind from informational and computational materials. Over the last 50 years, (...)
    Direct download (11 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   31 citations  
  6. The Intention/Volition Debate.Frederick Adams & Alfred R. Mele - 1992 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 22 (3):323-337.
    People intend to do things, try to do things, and do things. Do they also will to do things? More precisely, if people will to do things and their willing bears upon what they do, is willing, or volition, something distinct from intending and trying? This question is central to the intention/volition debate, a debate about the ingredients of the best theory of the nature and explanation of human action. A variety of competing conceptions of volition, intention, and trying have (...)
    Direct download (5 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   41 citations  
  7. The Role of Intention in Intentional Action.Frederick Adams & Alfred Mele - 1989 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 19 (4):511 - 531.
    A great deal of attention has been paid in recent years to the function- al roles of intentions in intentional action. In this paper we sketch and defend a position on this issue while attacking a provocative alternative. Our position has its roots in a cybernetic theory of purposive behavior and is only part of the larger task of understanding all goal-directed behavior. Indeed, a unified model of goal-directed behavior, with appropriate modifications for different types of systems, is a long-range (...)
    Direct download (6 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   40 citations  
  8.  88
    A Goal-State Theory of Function Attributions.Frederick R. Adams - 1979 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 9 (3):493 - 518.
    The analysis of function-ascribing statements, such as “the function of x is y”, is proving to be a difficult matter. It is difficult because we are only beginning to see the complexity which is involved in ascribing functions. The process of discovery has been slow and tedious, with each newly constructed analysis of the meaning of functional ascriptions yielding insights into the structure of functional analysis and functional explanation. However, as each analysis is, in turn, dismantled, we seem to see (...)
    Direct download (6 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   25 citations  
  9. Folk concepts, surveys and intentional action.Annie Steadman & Frederick Adams - 2007 - In Christoph Lumer & Sandro Nannini (eds.), Intentionality, deliberation and autonomy: the action-theoretic basis of practical philosophy. Ashgate Publishing.
    In a recent paper, Al Mele (2003) suggests that the Simple View of intentional action is “fiction” because it is “wholly unconstrained” by a widely shared (folk) concept of intentional action. The Simple View (Adams, 1986, McCann, 1986) states that an action is intentional only if intended. As evidence that the Simple View is not in accord with the folk notion of intentional action, Mele appeals to recent surveys of folk judgments by Joshua Knobe (2003, 2004a, 2004b). Knobe’s surveys appear (...)
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   21 citations  
  10. Defending non-derived content.Kenneth Aizawa & Frederick R. Adams - 2005 - Philosophical Psychology 18 (6):661-669.
    In ‘‘The Myth of Original Intentionality,’’ Daniel Dennett appears to want to argue for four claims involving the familiar distinction between original (or underived) and derived intentionality.
    Direct download (5 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   15 citations  
  11.  15
    The Mark of the Cognitive, Extended Cognition Style.Frederick Adams & Kenneth Aizawa - 2008 - In Frederick Adams & Kenneth Aizawa (eds.), The Bounds of Cognition. Malden, MA, USA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 76–87.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Cognition as Information Processing, as Computation, and as Abiding in the Meaningful Operationalism Is This Merely a Terminological Issue? Conclusion.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   11 citations  
  12. Empathy, neural imaging and the theory versus simulation debate.Frederick Adams - 2001 - Mind and Language 16 (4):368-392.
    This paper considers the debate over how we attribute beliefs, desires, and other mental states to our fellows. Do we employ a theory of mind? Or do we use simulational brain mechanisms, but employ no theory? One point of dispute between these theories focuses upon our ability to have empathic knowledge of the mind of another. I consider whether an argument posed by Ravenscroft settles the debate in favor of Simulation Theory. I suggest that the consideration of empathy does not (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   12 citations  
  13. Causal contents.Frederick R. Adams - 1991 - In Brian P. McLaughlin (ed.), Dretske and his critics. Cambridge, Mass., USA: Blackwell.
  14.  62
    (1 other version)Feedback about feedback: Reply to Ehring.Frederick Adams - 1986 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 24 (1):123-131.
    No categories
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   9 citations  
  15.  90
    The Function of Epistemic Justification.Frederick Adams - 1986 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 16 (3):465 - 492.
    Assume that epistemic justification has a cognitive function and that a belief's being justified is not just its being caused by the appropriate information (for this property of the belief may be cognitively impenetrable). What is the function of epistemic justification? it cannot be to actualize knowledge-The belief's being caused by appropriate information alone does that! so what is its function? I suggest it is to cause us to believe and/or take action.
    Direct download (7 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   8 citations  
  16. Mental representation.Frederick R. Adams - 2002 - In Stephen P. Stich & Ted A. Warfield (eds.), Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Mind. Blackwell.
  17. Swampman's revenge: Squabbles among the representationalists.Frederick R. Adams & Laura A. Dietrich - 2004 - Philosophical Psychology 17 (3):323-40.
    There are both externalist and internalist theories of the phenomenal content of conscious experiences. Externalists like Dretske and Tye treat the phenomenal content of conscious states as representations of external properties. Internalists think that phenomenal conscious states are reducible to electrochemical states of the brain in the style of the type-type identity theory. In this paper, we side with the representationalists and visit a dispute between them over the test case of Swampman. Does Swampman have conscious phenomenal states or not? (...)
    Direct download (5 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   5 citations  
  18.  49
    Introduction.Frederick Adams - 2007 - Journal of Philosophical Research 32 (9999):1-5.
    No categories
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   5 citations  
  19.  78
    Fodor's modal argument.Frederick Adams - 1993 - Philosophical Psychology 6 (1):41-56.
    What we do, intentionally, depends upon the intentional contents of our thoughts. For about ten years Fodor has argued that intentional behavior causally depends upon the narrow intentional content of thoughts (not broad). His main reason is a causal powers argument—brains of individuals A and B may differ in broad content, but, if A and B are neurophysically identical, their thoughts cannot differ in causal power, despite differences in broad content. Recently Fodor (Fodor, 1991) presents a new 'modal' version of (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   5 citations  
  20. Properties, functionalism, and the identity theory.Frederick R. Adams - unknown
  21. Intentions Confer Intentionality Upon Actions: A Reply to Knobe and Burra.Frederick Adams - 2006 - Journal of Cognition and Culture 6 (1-2):255-268.
    Is intentionally doing A linked to the intention to do A? Knobe and Burra believe that the link between the English words ‘intention’ and ‘intentional’ may mislead philosophers and cognitive scientists to falsely believe that intentionally doing an action A requires one to have the intention to do A. Knobe and Burra believe that data from other languages..
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   4 citations  
  22.  78
    Trying, Desire, and Desiring to Try.Frederick Adams - 1994 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 24 (4):613 - 626.
    What is the relationship between trying, desire, and desiring to try? Is it necessary to desire to do something in order to try to do it? Must Dave desire to quit smoking in order to try to quit? I shall defend the view that desiring to do A is necessary for trying to do A. First, Dave needs motivation to quit smoking and motivation comes in the form of desire. So it seems straightforward that when one tries to do something (...)
    Direct download (7 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   4 citations  
  23. (1 other version)Fodor’s Asymmetric Causal Dependency Theory and Proximal Projections.Frederick Adams & Kenneth Aizawa - 1997 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 35 (4):433-437.
    In “A Theory of Content, 11: The Theory,” Jerry Fodor presents two reasons why his asymmetric causal dependency theory does not lead to the conclusion that syntactic items “X” mean proximal sensory stimulations, rather than distal environmental objects. Here we challenge Fodor’s reasoning.
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   4 citations  
  24. Rock beats scissors: Historicalism fights back.Frederick R. Adams & Kenneth Aizawa - 1997 - Analysis 57 (4):273-81.
    Jerry Fodor (1994) thinks that content is not historically determined. In this paper we will consider Fodor's reasons.
    Direct download (5 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   4 citations  
  25.  18
    Tertiary Waywardness Tamed.Frederick Adams - 1989 - Critica 21 (61):117-125.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   4 citations  
  26.  33
    Trying.Frederick Adams - 1995 - Journal of Philosophical Research 20:549-561.
    Sue knows that, unaided, she cannot lift the 1,000 pound weight, but surely she can try. Can she not? For even if she believes it is impossible to succeed in lifting the weight, trying to lift the weight need not involve success. So surely, it would seem that nothing could be easier than for Sue to give lifting the weight a try. In this paper, I agrue that, appearances aside, it is not possible for someone to try to do what (...)
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   4 citations  
  27. Rules in programming languages and networks.Frederick R. Adams, Kenneth Aizawa & Gary Fuller - 1992 - In John Dinsmore (ed.), The Symbolic and Connectionist Paradigms: Closing the Gap. Lawrence Erlbaum.
    1. Do models formulated in programming languages use explicit rules where connectionist models do not? 2. Are rules as found in programming languages hard, precise, and exceptionless, where connectionist rules are not? 3. Do connectionist models use rules operating on distributed representations where models formulated in programming languages do not? 4. Do connectionist models fail to use structure sensitive rules of the sort found in "classical" computer architectures? In this chapter we argue that the answer to each of these questions (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   3 citations  
  28.  52
    Not Quite By Accident.Frederick Adams & Berent Enc - 1988 - Dialogue 27 (2):287-.
    In the etiology of teleological functions, what role can be played by accidental occurrences? Douglas Ehring's essay “Accidental Functions” constructs a theory of ideological functions which makes it possible for objects to have functions even when their causal origins are due entirely to accident—be they natural functions or artifact functions. Ehring constructs this view on the basis of a set of putative counterexamples aimed largely at the theories of Enc and Adams. Both of these theories block the attribution of ideological (...)
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   3 citations  
  29. Andy Clark on intrinsic content and extended cognition.Frederick R. Adams & Kenneth Aizawa - manuscript
    This is a plausible reading of what Clark and Chalmers had in mind at the time, but it is not the radical claim at stake in the extended cognition debate.[1] It is a familiar functionalist view of cognition and the mind that it can be realized in a wide range of distinct material bases. Thus, for many species of functionalism about cognition and the mind, it follows that they can be realized in extracranial substrates.[2] And, in truth, even some non-functionalist (...)
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  30. Acknowledgment: Guest Reviewers.Frederick Adams, Wilson Geisler, David Over, Woo-Kyoung Ahn, LouAnn Gerken, Thomas Palmeri, Kathleen Akins, Lisa Gershkoff-Stowe, David Papineau & Gerry Altmann - 2002 - Cognitive Science 26:841-842.
    No categories
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  31. Challenges to active externalism.Frederick R. Adams & Kenneth Aizawa - 2008 - In Murat Aydede & P. Robbins (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  32.  36
    The Coupling‐Constitution Fallacy.Frederick Adams & Kenneth Aizawa - 2008 - In Frederick Adams & Kenneth Aizawa (eds.), The Bounds of Cognition. Malden, MA, USA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 88–105.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Some Examples of the Coupling‐Constitution Fallacy Replies to the Coupling‐Constitution Fallacy Conclusion.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  33. He Doesn't Really Want to Try.Frederick Adams - 1991 - Analysis 51 (2):109 - 112.
    Direct download (6 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  34.  14
    Structural Justification.Frederick Adams - 1991 - Journal of Philosophical Research 16:473-492.
    This paper introduces and explicates a concept of justification not so far adequately treated in the epistemological literature. Structural justification for believing a proposition, p, is a kind implicit in one’s cognitive structure; it contrasts with (1) doxastic justification---justifiedly believing p; (2) situational justification---being justified in believing p (which is possible without believing it); and (3) propositional justification---the kind attributable to propositions for which suitable evidence is available. Structural justification is within one’s reach, but, unlike situational justification, not in one’s (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  35.  15
    Cognitive Processes.Frederick Adams & Kenneth Aizawa - 2008 - In Frederick Adams & Kenneth Aizawa (eds.), The Bounds of Cognition. Malden, MA, USA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 57–75.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Individuating Process Types in Science Individuating Processes in Cognitive Psychology A Broader Category of Cognition Conclusion.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  36. Fodor's asymmetrical causal dependency theory of meaning.Frederick R. Adams - unknown
  37.  14
    Bibliography.Frederick Adams & Kenneth Aizawa - 2008 - In Frederick Adams & Kenneth Aizawa (eds.), The Bounds of Cognition. Malden, MA, USA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 180–186.
    This chapter contains sections titled: What are the Boundaries? What is Cognition? The Possibility of Extended Cognition Conclusion.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  38.  14
    Inference to the Best Explanation and Extended Cognition.Frederick Adams & Kenneth Aizawa - 2008 - In Frederick Adams & Kenneth Aizawa (eds.), The Bounds of Cognition. Malden, MA, USA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 152–173.
    This chapter contains sections titled: What is the Theory of Enactive Perception? Noë's Evidence for Enactive Perception The Case against Enactive Perception: Paralysis Conclusion.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  39.  13
    Cognitive Equivalence, Complementarity, and Evolution.Frederick Adams & Kenneth Aizawa - 2008 - In Frederick Adams & Kenneth Aizawa (eds.), The Bounds of Cognition. Malden, MA, USA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 133–151.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Cognitive Equivalence The Complementarity Argument Evolutionary Arguments Conclusion: The Importance of the Mark of the Cognitive.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  40.  12
    Extended Cognitive Systems and Extended Cognitive Processes.Frederick Adams & Kenneth Aizawa - 2008 - In Frederick Adams & Kenneth Aizawa (eds.), The Bounds of Cognition. Malden, MA, USA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 106–132.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Dynamical Systems Theory and Coupling Haugeland's Theory of Systems and the Coupling of Components Clark's Theories of Systems and Coupling Conclusion.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  41.  53
    Audi on Structural Justification.Frederick Adams - 1991 - Journal of Philosophical Research 16:493-498.
  42.  9
    Future Directions.Frederick Adams & Kenneth Aizawa - 2008 - In Frederick Adams & Kenneth Aizawa (eds.), The Bounds of Cognition. Malden, MA, USA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 174–179.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  43.  52
    Machine Persons.Frederick Adams - 1992 - The Personalist Forum 8 (Supplement):47-55.
  44.  76
    Nomic reliabilism: Weak reliability is not enough.Frederick Adams & David Kline - 1987 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 25 (4):433-443.
    Reliabilism has received its share of bad press of late both as a theory of knowledge and as a theory of epistemic justification. We believe its credibility as a theory of knowledge may have been unjustly tarnished and we plan to defend it. However, we hasten to add that we shall defend reliabilism from attack only upon its credentials as a basis for a theory of knowledge. We shall not defend it as a theory of epistemic justification, although we do (...)
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  45. Names That Name Nothing.Frederick Adams - unknown
    This paper defends a direct reference view of empty names, saying that empty names literally have no meaning and cannot be used to express truths. However, all names, including empty names, are associated with accompanying descriptions that are implicated in pragmatically imparted truths. A sentence such as “Vulcan doesn’t exist” pragmatically imparts that there is no tenth planet. This view is defended against objections.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  46.  11
    Original Content.Frederick Adams & Kenneth Aizawa - 2008 - In Frederick Adams & Kenneth Aizawa (eds.), The Bounds of Cognition. Malden, MA, USA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 31–56.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Part of the Mark of the Cognitive: Non‐Derived Content The Basics on Derived and Underived Content Dennett's Critique of Original Content Clark's Critique of Original Content Anti‐Representationalism in Dynamical Systems and Mobile Robotics Conclusion.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  47.  55
    Of Epicycles and Elegance.Frederick Adams - 1994 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 24 (4):637 - 641.
    I am pleased to be able to respond to Al Mele’s reply to my paper on trying and desire. My remarks will bebriet.First, it is not thesis T that I find objectionable. It may be possible for me to want TO TRY to quit smoking, while currently not wanting TO QUIT smoking. I may want to try because I want to ACQUIRE the desire to quit, since people persist in nagging me to quit. So I accept thesis T because it (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (6 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  48.  23
    Preface.Frederick Adams - 2005 - Journal of Philosophical Research 30 (9999):1-1.
  49.  13
    Reflections on Philosophy Introductory Essays.Frederick Adams & Leemon B. Mchenry - 1993 - New York, NY, USA: St. Martin's Press.
    In this introduction to philosophy, philosophers in their areas of specialization have produced essays written specifically for the novice. The collection includes traditional topics such as logic, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, philosophy of religion , personal identity, and contemporary topics such as philosophy of mind and cognitive science.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  50.  9
    Reply to Russow's Fodor, Adams and Causal Properties.Frederick R. Adams - 1993 - Philosophical Psychology 6 (1):63-65.
1 — 50 / 58