Performance-Similarity Reasoning as a Source for Mechanism Schema Evaluation.

In this paper, I explicate and discuss performance-similarity reasoning as a strategy for mechanism schema evaluation, understood in Lindley Darden's sense. This strategy involves inferring hypotheses about the mechanism responsible for cognitive capacities from premises describing the performance o...

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Publicado en:Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 69 - 80
Autor principal: Gervais, Raoul
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Feb2020
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        Cognitive science
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        Computationalism
        Connectionism
        Face recognition
        Inference to the best explanation
        Mechanistic explanation
        Performance similarity
        Schema evaluation
      ab: In this paper, I explicate and discuss performance-similarity reasoning as a strategy for mechanism schema evaluation, understood in Lindley Darden's sense. This strategy involves inferring hypotheses about the mechanism responsible for cognitive capacities from premises describing the performance of those capacities; performance-similarity reasoning is a type of Inference to the Best Explanation, or IBE. Two types of such inferences are distinguished: one in which the performance of two systems is compared, and another when the performance of two systems under intervention is compared. Both types of inferences are illustrated with examples taken from cognitive science. I conclude that performance-similarity reasoning is an important strategy for evaluating mechanistic hypotheses.
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