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The map, the territory, and the cartographer: Linking the “pure” formal models to the “murky” material world

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2022

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Anna Ciaunica*
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Centre for Philosophy of Science, University of Lisbon, Campo Grande, Edificio C4 - 1749-016 Lisbon, Portugal Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London WC1N 3AR, UK a.ciaunica@ucl.ac.uk
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Abstract

Assigning to Pearl blankets an instrumental, a “pure” formal role, tacitly delegates the thorny question of mapping the “murky” territory to empirical sciences. But this move side-lines the problem, and does not offer a solution to the question: How do we relate the formal properties of an agent's model of the world to the real properties of the world itself?

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 45 , 2022 , e189
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press

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