Mereological Nihilism and Theoretical Unification

2015 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 318-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Brenner
Keyword(s):  
Mereological Nihilism ◽  
Theoretical Unification

Metaphysical Foundationalism and Theoretical Unification

Erkenntnis ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Brenner
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Unification

Power and network exchange: an essay toward theoretical unification

1992 ◽  
Vol 14 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 325-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Skvoretz ◽  
Thomas J. Fararo
Keyword(s):  
Network Exchange ◽  
Theoretical Unification

scholarly journals Against mereological nihilism

Synthese ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 191 (7) ◽  
pp. 1511-1527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Tallant
Keyword(s):  
Mereological Nihilism

Concepts and theoretical unification

2010 ◽  
Vol 33 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 219-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Margolis ◽  
Stephen Laurence
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Semantic Structure ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Mental Symbols ◽  
Theoretical Unification

AbstractConcepts are mental symbols that have semantic structure and processing structure. This approach (1) allows for different disciplines to converge on a common subject matter; (2) it promotes theoretical unification; and (3) it accommodates the varied processes that preoccupy Machery. It also avoids problems that go with his eliminativism, including the explanation of how fundamentally different types of concepts can be co-referential.

The Tree of Knowledge System and the Theoretical Unification of Psychology

2003 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregg Henriques
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Tree Of Knowledge ◽  
Evolutionary Changes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Tree Of Knowledge System ◽  
Fundamental Insight ◽  
Theoretical Unification

The outline for theoretically unified psychology is offered. A new epistemological system is used to provide a unique vantage point to examine how psychological science exists in relationship to the other sciences. This new view suggests that psychology can be thought of as existing between the central insights of B. F. Skinner and Sigmund Freud. Specifically, Skinner's fundamental insight is merged with cognitive neuroscience to understand how mind emerges out of life. This conception is then joined with Freud's fundamental insight to understand the evolutionary changes in mind that gave rise to human culture. By linking life to mind from the bottom and mind to culture from the top, psychology is effectively boxed in between biology and the social sciences.

scholarly journals Shared neuronal bases of inhibition and economic choice in orbitofrontal cortex

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pragathi Priyadharsini Balasubramani ◽  
Benjamin Y. Hayden
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Inhibitory Control ◽  
Neuronal Activity ◽  
Orbitofrontal Cortex ◽  
Choice Task ◽  
Stop Signal Task ◽  
Economic Choice ◽  
Brain Circuits ◽  
Neural Processes ◽  
Theoretical Unification

ABSTRACTEconomic choice and inhibition are two important elements of our cognitive repertoires that may be closely related. We and others have noted that during economic choice, options are typically considered serially; this fact provides important constraints on our understanding of choice. Notably, asynchronous contemplation means that each individual option is subject to an accept-reject decision. We have proposed that these component accept-reject decisions may have some kinship with stopping decisions. One prediction of this idea is that stopping and choice may reflect similar neural processes occurring in overlapping brain circuits. To test the idea, we recorded neuronal activity in orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) Area 13 while macaques performed a stop signal task interleaved with a structurally matched choice task. Using neural network decoders, we find that OFC ensembles have overlapping codes for stopping and choice: the decoder that was only trained to identify accept vs. reject trials performed with higher efficiency even when tested on the stop trials. These results provide tentative support for the idea that mechanisms underlying inhibitory control and choice selection may be subject to theoretical unification.

Two Geometrical Models for Pixelism

Metaphysica ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-113
Author(s):  
Fabio Patrone
Keyword(s):  
Possible Worlds ◽  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Counterpart Theory ◽  
Mereological Nihilism ◽  
Spatial Dimensions ◽  
Consistent Manner ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Radical Form

AbstractPixelism is the combination of three metaphysical thesis, namely a radical form of exdurantism, mereological nihilism and counterpart theory. Pixelism is a theory that evaluates all the metaphysical phenomena of persistence, composition and modality in a homogeneous and consistent manner. In a pixel world, there is no identity over time and over possible worlds and nothing persists over more than an instant or a world. Entities can be univocally identified by a five-coordinates system (the three spatial dimensions, the temporal one and the possible worlds), and their relation is a counterpart relation both in different worlds and at different times or different regions of space. In this paper I will provide two models for pixelism: the first one takes pixels to be hypercubes, i. e. four-dimensional cubes, the acceptance of which is conditional on the acceptance of extended simples. The second one considers pixels as points in a four-dimensional space.

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