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Waskan, Jonathan
Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Ph.D., Washington University
Research Areas
Models of Cognition
Professor Waskan‘s research interests span a variety of topics in the philosophy of cognitive science, including the following: representational formats, levels of explanation, prediction and explanation in the special sciences, connectionism, folk psychology, and theories of content. He is currently working on a book in which he argues for the psychological plausibility of non-sentential cognitive models and shows how this hypothesis can solve a number of problems in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of science.
Representative Publications
Waskan, Jonathan A. (2006). Models and Cognition: Prediction and Explanation in Everyday Life and in Science. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Kolak, D., W. Hirstein, P. Mandik, J. Waskan. (2006). Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Mind and Brain. NY: Routledge.
Waskan, J.A. (2003), "Folk Psychology and the Gauntlet of Irrealism," Southern Journal of Philosophy, 41/4, pp. 627-655.
Waskan, J.A. (2003), “Intrinsic Cognitive Models,” Cognitive Science, 27/1, pp. 259-283.
Waskan, J.A. (2001), “A Critique of Connectionist Semantics,” Connection Science, 13/3, pp. 1-16.
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