Behavioral and Brain Sciences 33 (2-3):209 - 210 (2010)
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In this commentary, I make three points concerning Machery's response to neo-empiricism. First, his methodological critique fails to remove the threat that neo-empiricism poses to his conceptual eliminativism. Second, evidence suggests that there are multiple semantic codes, some of which are not perceptually based. Third, this representational heterogeneity thwarts neo-empiricism but also raises questions with respect to how we should
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Keywords | Concepts Mind Empiricism Representation |
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DOI | 10.1017/s0140525x10000348 |
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