Andrew D Wilson

LATEST ARTICLES ( 200 )

• Do Markov Blankets Give Us Real Neural Parts?

  In my last post, I laid out what I think the rules are for developing a mechanistic model of the neural scale contribution to behaviour. I ended there with a... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2021 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Mechanistic Models of the Brain

  I'm getting increasingly interested in neuroscience, and how to make it ecological. I also think that the ecological approach is capable of supporting... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2021 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Constraints-Based Approach to Teaching in the Classroom

  

  If you read this and think 'hey, this sounds like something they do in [insert teaching method here]', please let me know. I've had some chats about the... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2021 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• An (Draft) Ecological Approach to Hallucinating

  Sabrina and I are planning our next papers, and in typical style she's been thinking about how to tackle a hard problem - this time, hallucinations. Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2020 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Verb Your Nouns

  One of the things that makes it hard to communicate with people about the ecological approach is that it is actually a radically different way of thinking... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2020 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Turvey, Lectures on Perception: The Story So Far

  I have now reviewed the first 7 Lectures on Perception from Turvey' textbook (posts indexed here). I feel like I've reached a natural pause point before carryin... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2020 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Verbal Instruction in Sports Coaching

  A few days ago I posted a Twitter thread about the role of verbal instruction in sports coaching. It's a thing that comes up a lot as a key point of contention... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2020 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Lecture 7: Empiricism and the Man in the Inner Room (Turvey, 2019, Lectures on...

  The last two Lectures have laid out the mechanical, Cartesian analysis of the problems of perception. Every flavour of this analysis, right up to an including... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2020 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Lecture 6: The Cartesian Program (Turvey, 2019, Lectures on Perception)

  Turvey is arguing that modern psychology is still operating within a mechanistic framework, which assumes things like linear chains of causation and... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2020 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Lecture 5: The Mechanistic Hypothesis (Turvey, 2019, Lectures on Perception)

  In the previous lecture, Turvey spent a lot of time defending the idea that nonlocal causality is a legitimate option for a physical system. Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2020 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Lecture 4: Simulative, Projective, and Locality Assumptions (Turvey, 2019,...

  This lecture is a brief history of the common assumptions made in theories of perception about how things 'over there' can cause us to have a given perceptual... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2020 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Lecture 3: Direct Perceiving, Indirect Perceiving (Turvey, 2019, Lectures on...

  In this lecture, Turvey provides a formal definition of what it means to claim a theory of perception is direct vs indirect. A theory of direct perception... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2020 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Lecture 2: Organism-Environment Dualism (Turvey, 2019, Lectures on Perception)

  In this Lecture, Turvey lays out the organism-environment dualism that lies at the heart of pretty much all attempts to answer the question, how can an... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2020 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Lecture 1: What Kind of Systems Do We Study? (Turvey, 2019, Lectures on...

  

  The first thing to do is to characterise what it is we are studying when we are studying perception. Turvey states we are studying epistemic, intentional system... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2020 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Reading Group: Turvey (2019), Lectures on Perception

  

  Michael Turvey runs a famously intense graduate level class on perception and action at CESPA. He has recently, finally, published a book of his lectures, in... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2020 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Transfer of Learning a Novel Coordinated Rhythmic Movement

  

  My PhD student Daniel Leach has just had his first paper accepted (preregistration, preprint, data analysis files available here on the OSF) so it's way past... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2020 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Task Dynamics of Angiogenesis

  In the last two posts, I have laid out the proposal that endothelial cells seem to actively perceive their environments, and set out the details of the... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2019 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Endothelial Cells Are Intelligent, Perceiving-Acting Agents

  In my last post, I laid out a new project I'm working on about the perceptual life of cells. I spent the day at the Crick Institute recently to move the... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2019 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Perceptual Life of Cells

  Over the summer, at ICPA 2019, I met a computational biologist called Katie Bentley. She is interested in angiogenesis, the cellular level process of new blood... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2019 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Show Me the TALoN! (Thoughts on Raja & Anderson, 2019)

  There is a special issue of Ecological Psychology out with contributions from lots of people (including us) on what a Gibsonian neuroscience might look like. Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2019 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE