Varieties of Information

Apr 27, 2016
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Manolo Martínez
Manolo Martínez
Philosophy

I am interested in the notions of information and representation in cognitive science and biology.

Publications

Imperative Transparency
I respond to an objection recently formulated by Barlassina and Hayward against first-order imperativism about pain, according to which …
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Neural Oscillations as Representations
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The Meaning of Biological Signals
We introduce the virtual special issue on content in signalling systems. The issue explores the uses and limits of ideas from …
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Representations are Rate-Distortion Sweet Spots
Information is widely perceived as essential to the study of communication and representation; still, theorists working on these topics …
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Real Patterns and Indispensability
While scientific inquiry crucially relies on the extraction of patterns from data, we still have a far from perfect understanding of …
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Usefulness Drives Representations to Truth
An important objection to signaling approaches to representation is that, if signaling behavior is driven by the maximization of …
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