According to the recent trend of concept eliminativism in cognitive science, the term ‘concept’ is of no explanatory value and should be banned from scientific use. I argue that the version of eliminativism due to Edouard Machery does not individuate the referent of ‘concept’ at the right level of abstraction; in other words, it confuses concepts with their realizers. I recommend is that concepts are individuated at the level of functional kinds, and suggest some of their explanatory functions.
Concepts exist. More about Eliminativism
Lalumera E
2013
Abstract
According to the recent trend of concept eliminativism in cognitive science, the term ‘concept’ is of no explanatory value and should be banned from scientific use. I argue that the version of eliminativism due to Edouard Machery does not individuate the referent of ‘concept’ at the right level of abstraction; in other words, it confuses concepts with their realizers. I recommend is that concepts are individuated at the level of functional kinds, and suggest some of their explanatory functions.File in questo prodotto:
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