Yan, Karen and Liao, Chuan-Ya (2023) A Co-Citation Analysis of Cross-Disciplinarity in the Empirically-Informed Philosophy of Mind. [Preprint]
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Empirically-informed philosophy of mind (EIPM) has become a dominant research style in the 21st century. EIPM relies on empirical results in various ways. However, the extant literature lacks an empirical description of how EIPM philosophers rely on empirical results. Moreover, though EIPM is essentially a form of cross-disciplinary research, it has not been analyzed as cross-disciplinary research so far. We aim to fill the above two gaps in the literature by producing quantitative and qualitative descriptions of EIPM as a kind of cross-disciplinary research. Our descriptions aim to enable metaphilosophers to evaluate EIPM methodologically and epistemically. Our analyses use co-citation and categorization analyses informed by the literature on interdisciplinarity. We present five sets of descriptions and identify the three most common types of cross-disciplinary interactions in EIPM. The resulting descriptions enable us to locate two metaphilosophical challenges for EIPM philosophers. One concerns how they should incorporate empirical results in different disciplinary contexts, and the other concerns which theoretical virtue(s) they should aim for when tinkering with scientific theories.
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| Keywords: | Empirically-informed philosophy of mind; Cross-Disciplinarity; Multidisciplinarity; Interdisciplinarity; Co-citation analysis; Theory-tinkering; Free-energy principle; Metaphilosophy | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science General Issues > Philosophers of Science Specific Sciences > Psychology |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Karen Yan | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 31 Mar 2023 12:26 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 31 Mar 2023 12:26 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 21953 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science General Issues > Philosophers of Science Specific Sciences > Psychology |
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| Date: | 2023 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/21953 |
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