Danón, Laura (2022) Conceptual recombination and stimulus-independence in non-human animals. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 37 (3). pp. 309-330. ISSN 2171-679X
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Abstract
Camp (2009) distinguishes two varieties of conceptual recombination. One of them is full-blown or (as I prefer to call it) spontaneous recombination. The other is causal-counterfactual recombination. She suggests that while human animals recombine their concepts in a full-blown way, many non-human animals are capable of conceptual recombinability but only of the causal-counterfactual kind. In this paper, I argue that there is conceptual space to draw further sub-distinctions on how different animals may recombine their concepts. More specifically, I propose to differentiate between a) narrow causal-counterfactual recombination; b) broad causal-counterfactual recombination; c) lean spontaneous recombination; d) robust spontaneous recombination. Afterwards, I focus on how these distinctions relate to several previous philosophical ideas on the representational capacities of non-human animals. I also provide several empirical examples suggesting that some animals display one or another of these four ways of recombining concepts, at least in some contexts.
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| Additional Information: | ISSN: 0495-4548 (print) | ||||||
| Keywords: | Non-human animals, concepts, conceptual recombination, animal minds | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Psychology > Comparative Psychology and Ethology Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Concepts and Representations |
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| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email theoria@ehu.es | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 06 Feb 2023 16:46 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 06 Feb 2023 16:46 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 21729 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science | ||||||
| Publisher: | Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea / Universidad del País Vasco | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://ojs.ehu.eus/index.php/THEORIA/article/view... | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.1387/theoria.23638 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Psychology > Comparative Psychology and Ethology Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Concepts and Representations |
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| Date: | September 2022 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 309-330 | ||||||
| Volume: | 37 | ||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2171-679X | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/21729 |
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