The two visual systems hypothesis and contrastive underdetermination.

This paper concerns local yet systematic problems of contrastive underdetermination of model choice in cognitive neuroscience debates about the so-called two visual systems hypothesis. The underdetermination problem is systematically generated by the way certain assumptions about the representationa...

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Published in:Synthese Vol. 198; pp. 4045 - 4069
Main Author: Grünbaum, Thor
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Published: Springer Nature Jul2021 Supplement 17
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        affil: Philosophy Section, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen, Karen Blixens Plads 8, 2300, Copenhagen S, Denmark
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        Philosophy of science
        Hypothesis
        Diagnosis
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        Confirmation theory
        Contrastive underdetermination
        Experimental methodology
        Model choice
        Philosophy of cognitive science
        Scientific realism
        Two visual systems hypothesis
      ab: This paper concerns local yet systematic problems of contrastive underdetermination of model choice in cognitive neuroscience debates about the so-called two visual systems hypothesis. The underdetermination problem is systematically generated by the way certain assumptions about the representationalist nature of computation are translated into experimental practice. The problem is that behavioural data underdetermine the choice between competing representational models. In this paper, I diagnose how these assumptions generate underdetermination problems in the choice between competing functional models of perception–action. Using the tools of philosophy of science, I describe the type of underdetermination and sketch a possible cure.
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