Abstract:Vehicle externalism maintains that the vehicles of our mental representations can be located outside of the head, that is, they need not be instantiated by neurons located inside the brain of the cogniser. But some disagree, insisting that 'non-derived', or 'original', content is the mark of the cognitive and that only biologically instantiated representational vehicles can have non-derived content, while the contents of all extra-neural representational vehicles are derived and thus lie outside the scope of t… Show more
“…For general discussions of mathematical signs (diagrams as well as symbolic notations) in this spirit, see for exampleGiardino (2016);Vold, Schlimm (2020).…”
“…For general discussions of mathematical signs (diagrams as well as symbolic notations) in this spirit, see for exampleGiardino (2016);Vold, Schlimm (2020).…”
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.