Aliya Rumana

Beyond Newtonian causation in neuroscience The traditional mechanistic framework must give way to a richer understanding of how brains actually generate behavior over time.

@pessoabrain.bsky.social talks to @wiringthebrain.bsky.social, @aliyarumana.bsky.social and Peter Ulric Tse about the need for neuroscience’s traditional mechanistic framework to give way to a richer understanding of how brains generate behavior.
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Explaining Mechanism-Task Fit in Neuroscience // By Aliya Rumana By Aliya RumanaCenter for Philosophy of ScienceUniversity of Pittsburgh Abstract:David Marr famously argued that computational theory (i.e., analysis at the computational level) was required to exp…

What is "mechanism-task fit" and why should philosophers and neuroscientists care about it? Check out my post for The Feedback at @socphilneuro.bsky.social

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A Population Doctrine in Neuroscience Workshop A Population Doctrine in Neuroscience Workshop (Call for Papers) We are pleased to announce an interdisciplinary 2-day workshop held at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsb...

An upcoming philosophy of neuroscience conference CFP. The organizers strongly encourage submissions from neuroscientists doing population recording, & in particular short talks that draw on ongoing research to address the theoretical questions highlighted in the CFP:

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3rd Online Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind ISPSM 2025   3rd Annual Online Conference   Call for AbstractsThe International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind(ISPSM) is happy to invite all philosophers working on a...

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Reminder that there's still time to submit to this nice online conference. Deadline is May 1st, 2025

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Thank you, Luiz!!

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This paper is the latest in a project I'm working on, where I try to show that tasks and task norms (which define what counts as "correct" task performance) play an indispensable role in shaping psychological and neuroscientific explanation. (5/5)

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Using retinal edge detection and frontal sound localisation as case studies, I argue that a neural mechanism is *appropriate* to the task it performs when it satisfies all the constraints on competent task performance (even if there is no shared computational structure). (4/x)

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In a series of papers, Shagrir and Bechtel argue that a neural mechanism is *appropriate* to the task it performs when they share the same computational structure. (3/x)

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My paper starts with David Marr's insight that even if we had a complete description of a neural mechanism, we would still need an explanation for how that neural mechanism is *appropriate* to the task it performs. (2/x)

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New pub at the British Journal for Philosophy of Science!

"Explaining Mechanism-Task Fit in Neuroscience" (1/x)

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Call for abstract announced for ISPSM 2025: see https://philevents.org/event/show/133458 for more information.

Very excited to announce ISPSM’s preliminary programme and call for abstracts for this year’s conference! ✨

Deadline for submission: 01/05/2025

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04.03.2025 09:47 — 👍 21    🔁 17    💬 2    📌 6

SPP 2025 will be at Cornell, June 18-21!

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