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Dimitri Coelho Mollo
Mind & Language, 2022
Mind & Language, 2022
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Mollo, D. C. (2022). Deflationary realism: Representation and idealisation in cognitive science. Mind &Amp; Language.
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Mollo, Dimitri Coelho. “Deflationary Realism: Representation and Idealisation in Cognitive Science.” Mind & Language (2022).
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Mollo, Dimitri Coelho. “Deflationary Realism: Representation and Idealisation in Cognitive Science.” Mind &Amp; Language, 2022.
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@article{dimitri2022a,
title = {Deflationary realism: Representation and idealisation in cognitive science},
year = {2022},
journal = {Mind & Language},
author = {Mollo, Dimitri Coelho}
}
Abstract
Debate on the nature of representation in cognitive systems tends to oscillate between robustly realist views and various anti-realist options. I defend an alternative view, deflationary realism, which sees cognitive representation as an offshoot of the extended application to cognitive systems of an explanatory model whose primary domain is public representation use. This extended application, justified by a common explanatory target, embodies idealisations, partial mismatches between model and reality. By seeing representation as part of an idealised model, deflationary realism avoids the problems with robust realist views, whilst keeping allegiance to realism.
