
Publication details
Year: 2018
Pages: 1969-1991
Series: Synthese
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, "The central executive system", Synthese 195 (5), 2018, pp. 1969-1991.


The central executive system
pp. 1969-1991
in: Gualtiero Piccinini (ed), Neuroscience and its philosophy, Synthese 195 (5), 2018.Abstract
Executive functioning has been said to bear on a range of traditional philosophical topics, such as consciousness, thought, and action. Surprisingly, philosophers have not much engaged with the scientific literature on executive functioning. This lack of engagement may be due to several influential criticisms of that literature by Daniel Dennett, Alan Allport, and others. In this paper I argue that more recent research on executive functioning shows that these criticisms are no longer valid. The paper clears the way to a more fruitful philosophical engagement with findings on the central executive system.
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Year: 2018
Pages: 1969-1991
Series: Synthese
Full citation:
, "The central executive system", Synthese 195 (5), 2018, pp. 1969-1991.