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Representation Re-construed: Construal-based Norms for Ascribing Natural Representations

Akagi, Mikio (2018) Representation Re-construed: Construal-based Norms for Ascribing Natural Representations. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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Abstract

Many philosophers worry that cognitive scientists apply the concept REPRESENTATION too liberally. For example, William Ramsey argues that scientists often ascribe natural representations according to the “receptor notion,” a causal account with absurd consequences. I rehabilitate the receptor notion by augmenting it with a background condition: that natural representations are ascribed only to systems construed as organisms. This Organism-Receptor account rationalizes our existing conceptual practice, including the fact that scientists in fact reject Ramsey’s absurd consequences. The Organism-Receptor account raises some worrying questions, but as a more faithful characterization of scientific practice it is a better guide to conceptual reform.

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Akagi, Mikiom.akagi@tcu.edu0000-0003-0996-487X
Keywords: Representation, cognitive science, construals
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science
Depositing User: Dr. Mikio Akagi
Date Deposited: 06 Jul 2018 15:55
Last Modified: 06 Jul 2018 15:55
Item ID: 14845
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science
Date: 30 June 2018
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/14845

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