Wajnerman Paz, Abel (2017) Pluralistic Mechanism. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 32 (2). pp. 161-175. ISSN 2171-679X
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Abstract
An argument recently proposed by Chirimuuta (2014) seems to motivate the rejection of the claims that every neurocognitive phenomenon can have a mechanistic explanation and that every neurocognitive explanation is mechanistic. In this paper, I focus on efficient coding models involving the so-called “canonical neural computations” and argue that although they imply some form of pluralism, they are compatible with two mechanistic generalizations: all neurocognitive explanations are (at least in part) mechanistic; and all neurocognitive phenomena that have an explanation have (at least) a purely mechanistic explanation.
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| Additional Information: | ISSN: 0495-4548 (print) | ||||||
| Keywords: | pluralism, mechanism, optimality, neural computation, neural coding | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science General Issues > Explanation Specific Sciences > Neuroscience |
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| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email theoria@ehu.es | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 20 Jun 2017 14:15 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 20 Jun 2017 14:15 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 13130 | ||||||
| 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: | http://www.ehu.eus/ojs/index.php/THEORIA/article/v... | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.1387/theoria.16877 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science General Issues > Explanation Specific Sciences > Neuroscience |
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| Date: | May 2017 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 161-175 | ||||||
| Volume: | 32 | ||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2171-679X | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/13130 |
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