Overview
- Dissolves the most vicious problem of scientific realism (i.e., the problem of scientific representation)
- Promotes and reconstructs the cognitive models of science approach
- Develops a new form of structural realism
- Combines the philosophical and scientific resources of Structural Realism along with Ronald Giere and friend’s Cognitive Models of Science approach
Part of the book series: Studies in Brain and Mind (SIBM, volume 14)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Keywords
- Cognitive Models of Science
- Cognitive Structural Realism
- Enactivism
- Epistemic Informational Structural Realism
- Neural Structural Realism
- Predictive Error Minimization Theory
- Ronald Giere
- Semantic View of Theories
- Structural Realism
- Churchland’s Extension of Cognitive Models of Science
- The Grounding Problem
- activation patterns and connectionist networks
About this book
Cognitive Models of Science approach (CMSA).
Readers will see how replacing the model-theoretic structures that are at issue in SR with connectionist networks and activations patterns (which are the formal tools of computational neuroscience) helps us to deal with the problem of representation. The author suggests that cognitive structures are not only the precise formal tools for regimenting the structure of scientific theories but also the tools that the biological brain uses to capture the essential features (i.e., structures) of its environment. Therefore, replacing model-theoretic structures with cognitive structures allows us to account for the theories-reality relationship on the basis of the most reliable theories of neurology. This is how a new form of SR, called Cognitive Structural Realism (CSR) is introduced through this book, which articulates and defends CSR, and shows how two diverging branches of SVT can be reconciled.
This ground-breaking work will particularly appeal to people who work in the philosophy of science, philosophy of mind and cognitive sciences.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cognitive Structural Realism
Book Subtitle: A Radical Solution to the Problem of Scientific Representation
Authors: Majid Davoody Beni
Series Title: Studies in Brain and Mind
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05114-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-05113-6Published: 07 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-05114-3Published: 29 January 2019
Series ISSN: 1573-4536
Series E-ISSN: 2468-399X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 188
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind