Normatywne mechanizmy reprezentacyjne a koherencyjna koncepcja błędu reprezentacyjnego
Normative Representational Mechanisms and Coherence-Based Account of System-Detectable Error

Summary/Abstract: In this article, I analyze the issue of the normativity of function presented in Krystyna Bielecka’s book Błądzę, więc myślę. Co to jest błędna reprezentacja? [I Err, Therefore I Think. What is Misrepresentation?]. I outline the general assumptions that, I argue, should be satisfied by a realistic and non-trivial theory of the normativity of representations. In the next part of the paper, I present the coherence-based account of system-detectable error and its main assumptions as defended by Bielecka. Then, I discuss the author's position on the issue of the normativity of representations, inspired by teleosemantics, which I refer to as epistemic. In the next part, I indicate two potential problems (i.e. attribution and observer) which are difficult to solve by a teleosemantic approach to normativity. After this, I suggest an understanding of representational functions and mechanisms in terms of explanatory normativity, and next, I discuss the role of environmental constraints in explaining normative mechanisms. In the summary, I defend Bielecka's approach, claiming that it can be supplemented with an ontical approach to normativity.

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