Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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926909 | Cognition | 2007 | 28 Pages |
Abstract
Thanks to Barsalou’s, Damasio’s, Glenberg’s, Prinz’ and others’ work, neo-empiricism is gaining a deserved recognition in the psychology and philosophy of concepts. I argue, however, that neo-empiricists have underestimated the difficulty of providing evidence against the amodal approach to concepts and higher cognition. I highlight three key problems: the difficulty of sorting out amodal predictions from neo-empiricist predictions, the difficulty of finding experimental tasks that are not best solved by imagery and the difficulty of generalizing findings concerning a given cognitive process in a given context to other cognitive processes or other contexts. Finally, solutions to these three problems are considered.
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Authors
Edouard Machery,