Philosophical Meditations of a Student

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Discover all that you need to know to start engaging in topics such as philosophy, cognitive science, and education.

Philosophy, cognitive science, and education

Follow our posts on analytic philosophy of mind

Learn all you need to know about the main theories in analytic philosophy of mind.

1. What is quale?
2. Substance dualism (2)
3. Analytic behaviorism
4. Verification criterion
5. Functionalism
6. Principle of multiple realizability
7. Representational theory of mind
8. Eliminative materialism
9. Intentional stance theory
10. Massive modularity hypothesis

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How has philosophy of mind contributed to the development of cognitive science? Discover this and much more.

Begin a new journey on the main theories of consciousness

1. The Hard problem of consciousness
2. Global workspace theory

Global workspace theory, sensorimotor theory and much more.

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What are the main theories of consciousness in contemporary neuroscience and philosophy?

Start learning about the main language teaching methods

1. A review of the main approaches
2. The functional neuroanatomy of language
3. Constructivism and language teaching
4. The grammar-translation approach
5. Early Berlitz method
6. The direct method
7. The audiolingual method

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What are the main approaches to language teaching? How can each method help me teach my students what they need to know?

Learn about cognitive science

1. Neural networks
2. Turing machines
3. Tolman’s latent learning
4. Tolman’s cognitive maps
5. Lashley’s research
6. Miller’s working memory
7. Chomsky’s formal analysis of syntax
8. The control of short-term memory
9. More recent theories of working memory
10. What is working memory?
11. What is a bit of information?

Delve into educational psychology

1. The neuroscience of learning, part 1
2. The neuroscience of learning, part 2
3. Piaget’s theory of cognitive development
4. Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory
5. Information processing theory: The basics
6. What are the learning sciences?

Discover the meaning of phenomenology

1. Introduction to phenomenology
2. What is intentionality?

What do you need to know before becoming a good teacher?

1. Gagné’s nine events of instruction
2. NTL’s pyramid of learning
3. Differential sensitivity
4. The process communication model / ESPAÑOL
5. Evaluación idiográfica o por procesos
6. Tipos de evaluación: formativa y sumativa
7. Multiple intelligences: Another case of empirically unsupported theories

1. Philosophical zombies
2. Chalmers’ zombism and Frankish’s response
3. Vacariu & Vacariu’s attack to the scientific status of cognitive neuroscience
4. David Braddon-Mitchell’s misconceptions about behaviorism

More topics on philosophy of mind

Presenting my new project EXOGRAM

So, here I am again. The purpose of this post is to present to you guys my new project: EXOGRAM. I barely have 7 blog entries in my new project, most of them related to the history of evolutionary biology and 2 about memory. I would like to invite you all to check out my

by Fred M R April 13, 2021

New future project

Hello, everyone. I haven’t been posting for a while, mainly for personal reasons and also because I have found different ways to study. So this blog’s main purpose was, on the first place, to summarize the things that I would learn as I kept reading and studying and post them online so people could learn

by Fred M R April 10, 2021

What is the massive modularity hypothesis?

If you guys ever read my previous posts on cognitive science, then you are probably acquainted with Jerry Alan Fodor and his contributions to its rise after the decline in popularity of radical behaviorism due to Chomsky’s strawman and some arguments by Lashley that have nothing to do with radical behaviorism at all. Today we

by Fred M R March 10, 2021