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http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-64
Authors: | Hohwy, Jakob |
Title: | The diversity of Bayesian explanation : a reply to Dominic L. Harkness |
Online publication date: | 29-Nov-2016 |
Year of first publication: | 2015 |
Language: | english |
Abstract: | My claim is that, if we understand the function of the brain in terms of the free energy principle, then the brain can explain the mind. Harkness discusses some objections to this claim, and proposes a cautious way of solidifying the explanatory potential of the free energy principle. In this response, I sketch a wide, diverse, and yet pleasingly Bayesian conception of scientific explanation. According to this conception, the free energy principle is already richly explanatory. |
DDC: | 100 Philosophie 100 Philosophy |
Institution: | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
Department: | FB 05 Philosophie und Philologie |
Place: | Mainz |
ROR: | https://ror.org/023b0x485 |
DOI: | http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-64 |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:77-publ-553008 |
Version: | Published version |
Publication type: | Buchbeitrag |
License: | In Copyright |
Information on rights of use: | https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
Citation: | Open MIND Metzinger, Thomas |
Pages or article number: | Kap. 19(R) |
Publisher: | MIND Group |
Publisher place: | Frankfurt am Main |
Issue date: | 2015 |
Publisher URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.15502/9783958570870 |
Publisher DOI: | 10.15502/9783958570870 |
Appears in collections: | JGU-Publikationen |