Against Arguments From Diagnostic Reasoning

Cognitive Science 47 (11):e13376 (2023)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Recent work in cognitive psychology and experimental semantics indicates that people do not categorize natural kinds solely by virtue of their purported scientific essence. Two attempts have been made to explain away the data by appealing to the idea that participants in these studies are reasoning diagnostically. I will argue that an appeal to diagnostic reasoning will likely not help to explain away the data.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

DOI

10.1111/cogs.13376

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 91,475

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Against Teleological Essentialism.Eleonore Neufeld - 2021 - Cognitive Science 45 (4):e12961.
The essence of essentialism.George E. Newman & Joshua Knobe - 2019 - Mind and Language 34 (5):585-605.
Naturalized Epistemics and Conditional Reasoning.Jane Duran - 1998 - Metaphilosophy 29 (4):288-297.
Psychological Essentialism and the Structure of Concepts.Eleonore Neufeld - 2022 - Philosophy Compass 17 (5):e12823.
Competing conceptions of diagnostic reasoning – is there a way out?Reidun Førde - 1998 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 19 (1):59-72.
Inherence is an aspect of psychological essentialism.Tara C. Dennehy - 2014 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 37 (5):486-487.
Friedman's Permanent Income Hypothesis as an Example of Diagnostic Reasoning.Maarten C. W. Janssen - 1992 - Economics and Philosophy 8 (1):23-46.
Are we Teleologically Essentialist?Sehrang Joo & Sami R. Yousif - 2022 - Cognitive Science 46 (11):e13202.
How does the psychiatrist know?Adrian Kind - 2023 - Philosophy and the Mind Sciences 4.
Yearning for certainty and the critique of medicine as “science”.Mark H. Waymack - 2009 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 30 (3):215-229.
Essentialism, Externalism, and Human Nature.M. J. Cain - 2012 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 70:29-51.
A Clarificatory Note about Popper on Essentialism.Danny Frederick - manuscript
Essentialism: A Wittgensteinian Critique.Garth L. Hallett - 1991 - SUNY Press.
My Heart Made Me Do It: Children's Essentialist Beliefs About Heart Transplants.Meredith Meyer, Susan A. Gelman, Steven O. Roberts & Sarah-Jane Leslie - 2017 - Cognitive Science 41 (6):1694-1712.
Psychological Essentialism and Dehumanization.Maria Kronfeldner - 2021 - In Routledge Handbook of Dehumanization. London, New York: Routledge.

Analytics

Added to PP
2023-11-11

Downloads
4 (#1,615,905)

6 months
4 (#783,550)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

Naming and Necessity.Saul Kripke - 1980 - Critica 17 (49):69-71.
Water is and is not H 2 O.Kevin P. Tobia, George E. Newman & Joshua Knobe - 2019 - Mind and Language 35 (2):183-208.
Teleological Essentialism.David Rose & Shaun Nichols - 2019 - Cognitive Science 43 (4):e12725.
Water is and is not H 2 O.Kevin P. Tobia, George E. Newman & Joshua Knobe - 2019 - Mind and Language 35 (2):183-208.

View all 12 references / Add more references