The website of Masashi Nakanishi,
a fledgling cognitive scientist.
- affiliation
- Educational Materials Museum,
Hyogo University of Teacher Education.
Assistant Professor.
- address
- 942-1 Shimokume, Kato-shi, Hyogo 673-1494, Japan (office)
- e-mail
- call sign
- JJ3WDA
Research interests
- Socio-Cognitive Psychology
- intuition and automaticity
- attention and frame problem, heuristics in decision making
- inductive and abductive inferences
- controllability, agency, counterfactuals, and causal epistemics
- self-regulation and goal systems
- confidence, uncertainty, and subjective probability
- explanatory coherence and simplicity
- justification and sharedness of knowledge and common sense
- Philosophy of Mind
- propositional attitudes (esp., intentionality, higher order, and their network)
- instrumentalism
- need for functionalism, representationalism, and computationalism (including connectionism)
- consciousness
- Philosophy of Science
- causation
- determinism and free will
- validity of induction
- scientific realism vs. constructivism
- Methodology and Philosophy of Psychology
- null hypothesis testing, bayesian hypothesis evaluation, and model selection
- psychological behaviorism and functionalism
- Occam's razor, Morgan's canon, and predictability
- Artificial Mind and Robotics
- architecture of autonomous robots
- genuine human-likeness and "other"ness
Study groups
- KenKen (The round-table discussion group on Methodology of Psychology)
- SIG on Philosophy of Mind
- SPY (computer and programming)
- Rationality workshop
Resources
Web interfaces and Demonstrations
