Content Pragmatism Defended

Mollo, Dimitri Coelho

doi:10.1007/s11245-017-9504-6

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“…According to content pragmatism, cognitive representations are not posits of cognitive theories proper, but are rather part of the extra‐theoretical apparatus that allows us to connect purely computational explanations of cognition to the externally‐individuated tasks we are interested in explaining in light of heuristic and pragmatic considerations (Coelho Mollo, 2020; Egan, 2014). 6 On the other hand, according to representational fictionalism talk of cognitive representation is a useful fiction (Sprevak, 2013), or a form of pretence (Toon, 2016): When making claims about cognitive representations, scientists engage in fictional discourse—discourse that works as a useful device for understanding behaviour, but that does not commit us to the reality of cognitive representations.…”

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Deflationary realism: Representation and idealisation in cognitive science

Mollo

2021

Mind & Language

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Debate on the nature of representation in cognitive systems tends to oscillate between robustly realist views and various anti‐realist options. I defend an alternative view, deflationary realism, which sees cognitive representation as an offshoot of the extended application to cognitive systems of an explanatory model whose primary domain is public representation use. This extended application, justified by a common explanatory target, embodies idealisations, partial mismatches between model and reality. By seeing representation as part of an idealised model, deflationary realism avoids the problems with robust realist views, while keeping allegiance to realism.

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Deflationary realism: Representation and idealisation in cognitive science

Mollo

2021

Mind & Language

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(Mis)computation in Computational Psychiatry

Colombo

2020

Studies in Brain and Mind

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Intelligent Behaviour

Mollo

2022

Erkenn

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The notion of intelligence is relevant to several fields of research, including cognitive and comparative psychology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and philosophy, among others. However, there is little agreement within and across these fields on how to characterise and explain intelligence. I put forward a behavioural, operational characterisation of intelligence that can play an integrative role in the sciences of intelligence, as well as preserve the distinctive explanatory value of the notion, setting it apart from the related concepts of cognition and rationality. Finally, I examine a popular hypothesis about the underpinnings of intelligence: the capacity to manipulate internal representations of the environment. I argue that the hypothesis needs refinement, and that so refined, it applies only to some forms of intelligence.

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Content Pragmatism Defended

Cited by 11 publications

References 32 publications

Deflationary realism: Representation and idealisation in cognitive science

Deflationary realism: Representation and idealisation in cognitive science

(Mis)computation in Computational Psychiatry

Intelligent Behaviour

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