Joshua Shepherd
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1.
Shepherd J
AI Soc
. 2024 Dec;
39(6):3005-3015.
PMID: 39640297
Many think that a specific aspect of phenomenal consciousness-valenced or affective experience-is essential to consciousness's moral significance (valence sentientism). They hold that valenced experience is necessary for well-being, or moral...
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Bayne T, Seth A, Massimini M, Shepherd J, Cleeremans A, Fleming S, et al.
Trends Cogn Sci
. 2024 Aug;
28(10):876-877.
PMID: 39179423
No abstract available.
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Bayne T, Seth A, Massimini M, Shepherd J, Cleeremans A, Fleming S, et al.
Trends Cogn Sci
. 2024 Mar;
28(5):454-466.
PMID: 38485576
Which systems/organisms are conscious? New tests for consciousness ('C-tests') are urgently needed. There is persisting uncertainty about when consciousness arises in human development, when it is lost due to neurological...
4.
Mandelbaum E, Dunham Y, Feiman R, Firestone C, Green E, Harris D, et al.
Cogn Sci
. 2022 Dec;
46(12):e13225.
PMID: 36537721
"What is the structure of thought?" is as central a question as any in cognitive science. A classic answer to this question has appealed to a Language of Thought (LoT)....
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Shepherd J
AJOB Neurosci
. 2022 Dec;
14(2):148-157.
PMID: 36476099
Consciousness-based approaches to non-human moral status maintain that consciousness is necessary for (some degree or level of) moral status. While these approaches are intuitive to many, in this paper I...
6.
Shepherd J
Wiley Interdiscip Rev Cogn Sci
. 2022 Oct;
14(2):e1629.
PMID: 36263671
Cognitive effort is thought to be familiar in everyday life, ubiquitous across multiple variations of task and circumstance, and integral to cost/benefit computations that are themselves central to the proper...
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Shepherd J
Synthese
. 2021 Nov;
198(Suppl 17):4143-4162.
PMID: 34720227
My topic is the intelligent guidance of action. In this paper I offer an empirically grounded case for four ideas: that [a] cognitive processes of practical reasoning play a key...
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Sawai T, Hayashi Y, Niikawa T, Shepherd J, Thomas E, Lee T, et al.
AJOB Neurosci
. 2021 Mar;
13(2):81-94.
PMID: 33769221
In 2008, researchers created human three-dimensional neural tissue - known as the pioneering work of "brain organoids." In recent years, some researchers have transplanted human brain organoids into animal brains...
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Bjornsson G, Shepherd J
Philos Psychol
. 2020 Aug;
33(4):549-568.
PMID: 32747853
The studies we report indicate that it is possible to manipulate explicit ascriptions of consciousness by manipulating whether an agent's behavior is deterministically caused. In addition, we explore whether this...
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Shepherd J
Neurosci Conscious
. 2019 Oct;
2019(1):niz014.
PMID: 31656634
I seek an explanation for the etiology and the function of mind wandering episodes. My proposal-which I call the cognitive control proposal-is that mind wandering is a form of non-conscious...