Dhein, Kelle (2020) What Makes Neurophysiology Meaningful? Semantic Content Ascriptions in Insect Navigation Research. [Preprint]
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Abstract
In the course of investigating the living world, biologists regularly attribute semantic content to the phenomena they study. In this paper, I examine the case of a contemporary research program studying the navigation behaviors of ants and develop an account of the norms governing researchers’ ascriptions of semantic content in their research practices. The account holds that researchers assign semantic content to behaviors that reliably achieve a difficult goal-directed function, and it also suggests a productive role for attributions of semantic content in the process of animal behavior research.
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Additional Information: | Accepted for publication in Biology & Philosophy on September 9th, 2020. | ||||||
Keywords: | Biological Information, Semantic Content, Scientific Practice, Ethology, Animal Navigation | ||||||
Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Action Specific Sciences > Biology > Function/Teleology Specific Sciences > Neuroscience > Cognitive Neuroscience |
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Depositing User: | Kelle Dhein | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 11 Sep 2020 14:20 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 11 Sep 2020 14:20 | ||||||
Item ID: | 18075 | ||||||
Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Action Specific Sciences > Biology > Function/Teleology Specific Sciences > Neuroscience > Cognitive Neuroscience |
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Date: | 9 September 2020 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/18075 |
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