Aug 2026· Erkenntnis: An International Journal of Scientific Philosophy· 0 citations· 44 references
Abstract
It is a central task for theories of representation to give a principled account of the distinction between representational and non-representational systems. In this paper, I begin by arguing that this plausibly involves giving an account that accurately reflects differences in the explanatory practice of the sciences. I then show that one of the most sophisticated and empirically well-informed attempts to give such an account faces a fundamental problem, the problem of adjacent cases, and I suggest that we have reason to suspect that this problem generalizes to other traditional accounts. Finally, I sketch a radically gradualist alternative that solves the problem in a simple and elegant way and provides a plausible view of the transition from mere sensitivity to genuine representation.
Most theorists have offered different accounts of reference fixing for names, demonstratives, and indexicals. Indeed, this variety can seem an inevitable response to a certain class of hard cases. Here, I will offer a unified account of reference fixing equally capable of handling these cases. Then, I will show how t...
Eliot Michaelson· Philosophy and Phenomenologi...· 0 citations
The book lays the groundwork for a novel account of rule-following which is both philosophically substantive and partially reductive. The account the book proposes is philosophically substantive in contrast with the kind of discourses that exemplify a quietist approach to philosophy. It is partially reductive inasmuc...
This paper develops an account of omissions as epistemically significant features of cognition. Drawing on a functionalist framework inspired by Fodor and recent theories of attention, I argue that inattention and omissions are not mere absences but structured elements with mental architecture that determine which repr...
While projects in philosophy of science often focus on similar sorts of topics, there are often massive differences in how philosophers approach them. One approach that has enjoyed significant success—and that is modeled in the work of Wimsatt and others—involves taking a conceptual engineering perspective in analyzing...
Jaehyun Lee, Lauren N. Ross· Acta Biotheoretica· 0 citations
I begin by introducing Sutherland’s account of why Kant takes mathematics to require a non-conceptual source of knowledge of bare numerical difference. Given that objective space and time are wholes, however, I wonder why, according to Sutherland, such a source of knowledge can’t be circumvented by taking each spatia...
Tyke Nunez· Canadian Journal of Philosop...· 0 citations
Descartes'
cogito
argument is perhaps the most well‐known philosophical argument, the conclusion of which is supposed to be a form of rationalism that allows for contingent
a priori
knowledge of the world. In this short note, I argue that, in fact, the all important statement, ‘I am, I exist’, should be analyse...
Tom Schoonen· Ratio· 0 citations
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