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The spirit of philosophy is the spirit of free inquiry, in which each person learns to think for her- or himself about the deepest problems facing humanity, rather than taking over views provided by some other person or institution claiming authority. But philosophy is not an individual practice.
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Inês Hipólito Philosophy (BA, 2010; MA, 2012); Cognitive Science (2015) School of Liberal Arts, Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts Building 19. Office 6064 University of Wollongong Australia Email: inesh@uow.edu.au 
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I am graduated in Philosophy (BA, 2010; MA., 2012 summa cum laude), and Cognitive. Science (PG, 2015). Currently, I am a postgraduate award PhD candidate on Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, at the University of Wollongong (Australia). My research focuses on the relation between perception and cognition. While perceive and cognising sometimes inter-relate, perceiving has special properties that motivate thinking of it in terms of a perception-cognition boundary. My research questions whether and, if so, how to draw boundaries between perception and cognition in optimisation schemes of predictive processing and active inference. There are philosophical and empirical reasons in favour of a relation between cognition and perception. However, in the light of visual ‘illusions’, predictive processing is left with one puzzle, how to draw new boundaries that specify conditions for contingent segregation within the perception-cognition continuum - one that is not vulnerable to epistemological problems of content? When I am not thinking about these things, I enjoy travelling to discover cultures and myself and exploring the natural world. Check out my pictures on Instagram. |
