Naturalized Representations—a Useful Goal or a Useful Fiction?

Studia Semiotyczne—English Supplement 30:5-19 (2019)
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One of the key concepts of naturalized epistemology as well as the cognitive sciences that stem from it is the naturalized concept of mental representation. Within this naturalized concept, many attempts have been made to unify the notion of representation error. This text makes an attempt to argue against the adequacy of using a naturalized concept of representation error as well as casts doubt on the wide program of naturalizing concepts related to human conceptuality.

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Piotr Wilkin
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