Naturalized representations – a useful goal or a useful fiction? Cover Image

Reprezentacje znaturalizowane – użyteczny cel czy użyteczna fikcja?
Naturalized representations – a useful goal or a useful fiction?

Author(s): Piotr Wilkin
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Psycholinguistics
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Semiotyczne
Keywords: mental representations; representation error; naturalization;

Summary/Abstract: 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 (for humans as well as for other living organisms) 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.

  • Issue Year: XXXI/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 91-108
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish