Contextual Emergence and Its Applications in Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science

• Authors: POCZOBUT Robert

Title variants

PL

EMERGENCJA KONTEKSTOWA I JEJ ZASTOSOWANIA W FILOZOFII UMYSŁU I KOGNITYWISTYCE

Abstracts

EN

The purpose of the article is to analyze the concept of contextual emergence as well as its selected applications in philosophy of mind and cognitive science. In the first section the author presents the general assumptions of the emergentist model of reality. He stresses that the concept of emergence can be applied to the description of various levels of organization of nature: one of these levels is that of mental-cognitive processes, analyzed within the fields of philosophy of mind and cog­nitive science. In the subsequent sections, he introduces the definitions of con­textual emergence and systemic causation and he points to their selected applications to mental-cognitive systems. In the concluding part, he presents the ideas of Gerald Edelman and Michael Gazzaniga on the role of con­textual explanations as well as the concepts of emergence in the philosophy of biology and cog­nitive neuroscience. He also indicates the possibility of incor­porating the concept of contextual emer­gence into active externalism and the extended cognition theory.

PL

Celem artykułu jest analiza pojęcia emergencji kontekstowej oraz jego wybranych zasto­so­wań w filozofii umysłu i kognitywistyce. W pierwszej sekcji autor przedstawia ogólne założenia emer­gentystycznego obrazu rzeczywistości. Zwraca uwagę, że pojęcie emergencji ma zasto­so­wanie do opisu różnych poziomów rzeczywistości — jednym z nich jest poziom systemów umysłowo-‑poznawczych badany w filozofii umysłu i kognitywistyce. W kolejnych sekcjach wpro­wadza de­fi­nicje emergencji kontekstowej oraz przyczynowości systemowej oraz wskazuje na zastosowania tych pojęć w odniesieniu do systemów umysłowo-poznawczych. W końcowej części artykułu, w na­wią­zaniu do prac Geralda Edelmana i Michaela Gazzanigi, omawia rolę wyjaśniania kon­tek­stowego w biologii i neurokognitywistyce. Wskazuje również na możliwość wykorzystania poję­cia emer­gencji kontekstowej w analizie eksternalizmu aktywnego oraz teorii rozszerzonego po­znania.

Keywords

EN

contextual emergence; philosophy of mind; cognitive science; contextual explanation

PL

emergencja kontekstowa; filozofia umysłu; kognitywistyka; wyjaśnianie kontekstowe

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II. Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL
• Journal: Roczniki Filozoficzne
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 66
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 123-146

Dates

published

2018-09-28

Contributors

author

POCZOBUT Robert

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18290/rf.2018.66.3-6