A Dynamical Perspective on the Generality Problem
(2021) In Acta Analytica 36(3). p.409-422- Abstract
- The generality problem is commonly considered to be a critical difficulty for reliabilism. In this paper, we present a dynamical perspective on the problem in the spirit of naturalized epistemology. According to this outlook, it is worth investigating how token belief-forming processes instantiate specific types in the biological agent’s cognitive architecture (including other relevant embodied features) and background experience, consisting in the process of attractor-guided neural activation. While our discussion of the generality problem assigns “scientific types” to token processes, it represents a unified account in the sense that it incorporates contextual and common sense features emphasized by other authors.
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- Stephens, Andreas LU ; Tjøstheim, Trond A. LU ; Roszko, Maximilian LU and Olsson, Erik J LU
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- publishing date
- 2021-01-12
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Dynamical systems, The generality problem, Naturalistic epistemology, Reliabilism
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- Acta Analytica
- volume
- 36
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 14 pages
- publisher
- Springer
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- scopus:85099354063
- ISSN
- 0353-5150
- DOI
- 10.1007/s12136-020-00458-6
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- Cognitive Philosophy Research Group (CogPhi)
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- English
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- yes
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- 6a0dbfe3-3ab8-4665-8c51-f765bd4cd6a9
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