Date: 24 Jan 2024 @3:00PM-04:00PM
Title: Motoric Format
Location: Online & DT 2203
Abstract:
My aim in this paper is to contribute to recent efforts geared towards elucidating the nature of motor representations, i.e., the psychological states that serve as the primary bridge between an agent’s immediate intention and their subsequent behaviour. In particular, my focus here will be on how motor representations encode their contents, or what I will call motoric format. I will argue that motor representations exhibit core characteristics of both propositionally-formatted representations (such as sentences in natural language) and analog representations (such as pictures and photographs). If this is right, a number of interesting options present themselves regarding how motor representations are ultimately structured. I close by outlining three of these.
Speaker: Myrto Mylopoulos
Bio:
Myrto Mylopoulos is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Department of Cognitive Science at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Her research focuses primarily on topics within the philosophy of mind, action, and cognitive science. In particular, she is interested in the nature of the psychological representations that drive skilled behaviour, how cognition interfaces with motor control, and the various connections between consciousness and agency.