Pluralistic Mechanism

Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 32 (2):161-175 (2017)
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Abstract

An argument recently proposed by Chirimuuta seems to motivate the rejection of the claims that every neurocognitive phenomenon can have a mechanistic explanation and that every neurocognitive explanation is mechanistic. In this paper, I focus on efficient coding models involving the so-called “canonical neural computations” and argue that although they imply some form of pluralism, they are compatible with two mechanistic generalizations: all neurocognitive explanations are mechanistic; and all neurocognitive phenomena that have an explanation have a purely mechanistic explanation.

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Abel Wajnerman Paz
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

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