H2020Индивидуална стипендия2016–2018

TOPEX · Philosophical Foundations of Topological Explanations

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2016-06-01 → 2018-05-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 185 076 €
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Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Топологичните обяснения изследват как геометричните модели помагат да разберем работата на мозъка, вместо само да описват данните. Това е важно, за да се установи дали тези модели действително обясняват процесите в невронауката и философията на ума.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

Philosophical Foundations of Topological Explanations

The aim of this project was to develop a comprehensive account of topological explanations, which may have applications in two areas of philosophy concerned with how the brain works, i.e. in philosophy of mind and in philosophy of neuroscience. To this effect, the project had four main research objectives (RO) each of which were achieved in four work packages of the project: RO1: to analyse the explanatory power of topological models. I was analysing methods used to build topological models to see if they deliver: a) understanding, b) an account of how the model is explanatory rather than merely descriptive; RO2: to systematically assess representational constraints of topological models given the relevant methods and techniques for obtaining data in special science, particularly in neuroscience; RO3: to contextualize topological explanations with regard to the mainstream paradigms (the mechanistic and semantic/functionalist ones), particularly to show that topological explanations support counterfactual analysis; RO4: to systematize varieties of topological explanation that are used in different areas in order to be able to point out prospects of their further development.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

This project develops a philosophical account of a new kind of explanations that recently became prominent in neuroscience. On this approach, systems such as brain are represented as networks of their elements and their interactions. The explanation is then given in terms of features of connectedness (that is why it is called topological) of a network representing a system. The aim of this project is to develop a comprehensive account of topological explanations and to systematically introduce it to the mainstream debates in philosophy of mind and philosophy of neuroscience. Doing so, will allow us to come in a position to solve a set of some of the most vexing problems in these two major areas of philosophy, such as transparency of explanations in philosophy of mind and universality of explanations in philosophy of neuroscience.The novelty, originality and timeliness of my project is that it provides a new and compelling way of looking at how a major set of problems in philosophy of mind and philosophy of neuroscience is both formulated and addressed in the light of the new way of doing science. This will be accomplished by developing a systematic framework for understanding how target systems and phenomena are represented in topological explanations (models), what are the constraints on what is represented (explanatory limits), and by showing how exactly topological explanations provide better basis for the transparency and universality of explanations.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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