Gough, Joe (2022) Cognitive science meets the mark of the cognitive: Putting the horse before the cart. [Preprint]

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Abstract

Among those living systems, which are cognizers? Among the behaviours of, and causes of behaviour in,
living systems, which are cognitive? Such questions sit at the heart of a sophisticated, ongoing debate, of
which the recent papers by Corcoran, Pezzulo, and Hohwy (2020) and Sims and Kiverstein (2021) serve
as excellent examples. I argue that despite their virtues, both papers suffer from flawed conceptions of
the point of the debate. This leaves their proposals ill-motivated — good answers to the wrong question.
Additionally, their proposals are unfit to serve the legitimate roles for characterizations of cognition.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Gough, Joe joseph.f.gough@durham.ac.uk 0000-0003-2591-5744
Keywords:	Expected free energy; mark of the cognitive; cognition; cognitive science; counterfactual cognition
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science General Issues > Natural Kinds
Depositing User:	Mr Joseph Gough
Date Deposited:	14 Nov 2022 17:51
Last Modified:	14 Nov 2022 17:51
Item ID:	21415
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science General Issues > Natural Kinds
Date:	11 November 2022
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/21415

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