Finding truth in fictions: identifying non-fictions in imaginary cracks

Purves, Gordon Michael

doi:10.1007/s11229-012-0144-5

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“…The quest for finding a plausible combination of fictionalism and realism is by no means forsaken, and the issues of similarity and comparison are in the very centre of philosophical attention (Levy 2012;Purves 2013;Salis 2016;Contessa 2010; Godfrey-Smith 2016; Weisberg 2013 among many others). Therefore, I do not pretend that we could be certain of the failure of the expedition for developing Giere's theory into a sophisticated form of realism.…”

Section: Representation and Realitymentioning

confidence: 99%

On the Thinking Brains and Tinkering with the Scientific Models

Beni

2017

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The paper aims to provide a detailed assessment of Tim Crane's recent invocation of the notion of scientific models in the way of dealing with the issue of the brain's representational states. In this paper, I assess Crane's proposal under a charitable and a less charitable reading. I argue that Crane's use of scientific models is at best (i.e. under a charitable reading) compatible with his expression of psychological realism. However, Crane's use of model-based strategy by no means underlay, support, or strengthen his psychological realism. Rather, traditional reasons from the metaphysics of mind, acting quite separately from empirical scientific reasons, must be used to support this realism, and Crane has merely removed the threat posed to these metaphysical arguments by the existence of the so-called mereological fallacy in empirical neuroscience. Therefore, while he has saved the neuroscientific language from philosophical attack, he has perhaps even strengthened the divide between neuroscience and philosophy. I conclude the paper by outlining the sketch of a broadbrush scientifically informed strategy for defending psychological realism.

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Section: Representation and Realitymentioning

confidence: 99%