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Cognitive science meets the mark of the cognitive: putting the horse before the cart
- 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 et al. (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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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1007/s10539-022-09889-4
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- Springer Nature
- Journal:
- Biology and Philosophy More from this journal
- Volume:
- 38
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- 1
- Publication date:
- 2022-12-17
- Acceptance date:
- 2022-11-22
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1572-8404
- ISSN:
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0169-3867
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English
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1598198
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pubs:1598198
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2024-02-01
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- Joe Gough
- Copyright date:
- 2023
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- © 2022, The Author(s) This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC BY license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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