Connecting Unconventional Cognition to Humans

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_15443
dc.title	Connecting Unconventional Cognition to Humans. Unification and Generativity
dc.contributor.author	Colaço David
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/the-journal-for-the-philosophy-of-language-mind-an/2023/2/connecting-unconventional-cognition-to-humans/
dc.description.abstract	The idea of applying cognitive kind terms and concepts to ‘unconventional’ systems has gained steam. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this idea also has been met with skepticism. There is an implicit worry amongst skeptics that the idea of applying cognitive kind terms and concepts to non-humans, or at least to non-humans that are anatomically quite unlike humans, amounts to a Mere Honorific Conclusion: to say that a system is cognitive is to say it is merely worthy of investigation. In this paper, I use this conclusion as a framing device for exploring how we ought to approach the idea of cognition in unconventional systems, and I explore two avenues for blocking it: unification and generativity.
dc.relation.ispartof	JoLMA
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 4 \| Issue 2 \| December 2023
dc.issued	2023-12-20
dc.dateAccepted	2023-11-12
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-09-30
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2723-9640
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/Jolma/2723-9640/2023/02/002
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Cognition
dc.subject	Generativity
dc.subject	Memory
dc.subject	Unconventional Cognitive System
dc.subject	Unification

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Unification and Generativity

David Colaço Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich, Germany

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abstract

The idea of applying cognitive kind terms and concepts to ‘unconventional’ systems has gained steam. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this idea also has been met with skepticism. There is an implicit worry amongst skeptics that the idea of applying cognitive kind terms and concepts to non-humans, or at least to non-humans that are anatomically quite unlike humans, amounts to a Mere Honorific Conclusion: to say that a system is cognitive is to say it is merely worthy of investigation. In this paper, I use this conclusion as a framing device for exploring how we ought to approach the idea of cognition in unconventional systems, and I explore two avenues for blocking it: unification and generativity.

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Dec. 20, 2023

Accepted

Nov. 12, 2023

Submitted

Sept. 30, 2023

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Keywords: Memory • Unconventional Cognitive System • Cognition • Generativity • Unification

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