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Systems of Visual Identification in Neuroscience: Lessons from Epistemic Logic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Jaakko Hintikka  and
John Symons
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Abstract

The following analysis shows how developments in epistemic logic can play a nontrivial role in cognitive neuroscience. We argue that the striking correspondence between two modes of identification, as distinguished in the epistemic context, and two cognitive systems distinguished by neuroscientific investigation of the visual system (the “where” and “what” systems) is not coincidental, and that it can play a clarificatory role at the most fundamental levels of neuroscientific theory.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 70 , Issue 1 , January 2003 , pp. 89 - 104
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Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association

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Footnotes

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We would like to thank Bill Bechtel, John Bickle, Daniel Dennett, Jacques Dubucs, Juliet Floyd, Aaron Garrett, Shahid Rahman, and Lucia Vaina for comments on earlier drafts of this paper. We would also like to thank two anonymous referees for very useful suggestions.

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