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Cory Wright
Researcher at California State University, Long Beach
Publications - 31
Citations - 713
Cory Wright is an academic researcher from California State University, Long Beach. The author has contributed to research in topics: Alethic modality & Pluralism (philosophy). The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 31 publications receiving 627 citations. Previous affiliations of Cory Wright include California State University & Scripps Research Institute.
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Mechanisms and psychological explanation
Cory Wright,William Bechtel +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors outline the history of machine-based approaches to psychology and discuss the main issues in the philosophy of psychology beyond that of explanation, such as the question of reductionism and scientific discoveries.
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What is Psychological Explanation
William Bechtel,Cory Wright +1 more
TL;DR: A cursory look at the history of psychology can reveal a rich collage of explanatory forms and strategies that have been invoked to render intelligible our mental lives and behavioral repertoires as mentioned in this paper.
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First Principles in the Life Sciences: The free-energy principle, organicism, and mechanism
Matteo Colombo,Cory Wright +1 more
TL;DR: Limits and prospects are identified for the free-energy principle as a first principle in the life sciences and its epistemic status is clarified.
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Truth and Pluralism: Current Debates
TL;DR: In this article, Nikolaj J. L. Pedersen and Cory D. Wright introduce the concept of correspondence theory of truth and define a set of relations between truth and correspondences.
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Explanatory pluralism: An unrewarding prediction error for free energy theorists.
Matteo Colombo,Cory Wright +1 more
TL;DR: The evidence currently vindicates explanatory pluralism and implies that the grand unifying claims of advocates of PTB are unwarranted, and it is suggested that the form of scientific progress in the cognitive sciences is unlikely to be a single overarchinggrand unifying theory.