Hipolito, Ines and va es, Thomas (2022) Free Energy Pragmatics: Markov blankets don't prescribe objective ontology, and that's okay. [Preprint]
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In their impressive paper, Bruineberg et al. (2021) make a significant contribution to the Free Energy Principle literature by distinguishing between 'Pearl blankets' and 'Friston blankets', identifying the former as an epistemic tool, and the latter in terms of its novel metaphysical use. We note the oft-forgotten theoretical context of these statistical tools and the need for empirical testing next to computational modeling. A peculiar aspect of the FEP is its use in support of radically opposed ontologies of the mind. In our view, the objective ontological aspiration itself should be rejected; we propose a more thoroughly pragmatic instrumentalist view.
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| Keywords: | Free energy principle, ontology, pragmatics | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Concepts and Representations General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Philosophers of Science |
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| Depositing User: | Ines Hipolito | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 11 Jan 2022 04:43 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 11 Jan 2022 04:43 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 20100 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Concepts and Representations General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Philosophers of Science |
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| Date: | 1 January 2022 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/20100 |
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