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Michael David Kirchhoff

@kirchhoffmd.bsky.social

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Professor in the School of Liberal Arts, University of Wollongong, Australia. Current research: The function and implication of using idealized methods to model the mind/brain in computational neurosience. Ongoing: FEP, 4E, metaphysical musings

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Michael David Kirchhoff @kirchhoffmd.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Looking forward to participating in this session via the Asian Pacific Philosophy of Science Association

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Michael David Kirchhoff @kirchhoffmd.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

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Michael David Kirchhoff @kirchhoffmd.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Looking forward to this podcast interview

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Michael David Kirchhoff @kirchhoffmd.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

'The Idealized Mind: From Model-based Science to Cognitive Science' published by MIT Press. Claims: models of the mind are idealized models; this is consistent with scientific realism; yet, it blocks realism about neural representation and neural computation based on evidence from neuroscience.

Book cover for The Idealized Mind with the MIT Press, published in 2025. The image, created by my friend Chris Vernon, is a simplified artificial neural network (ANN). The fact that this ANN looks nothing like a real neural network is the picture developed in the book with implications for discussions about neural representation, neural computation and explanatory unification in the computational cognitive sciences

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