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  • Apriority and conceptual kinematics
    Miščević, Nenad
    The paper critically discusses the Chalmers-and-Jackson strategy of accounting for the dynamics of conceptual intuitions. In contrast to this strategy, it is argued that concepts alone do not ... determine in advance rational responses to new evidence. An initial concept is often revised in the light of new data, the revision being guided by the goal of detecting the deep causal structure of the domain investigated. Using examples from the history of science (concept REFLEX ARC) as an illustration, it is argued that the dilemma of either irrational messy updating of intuitions (Yablo) or strict rails of conceptual pre-determination (Chalmers-Jackson) is a false one. Rationality does not lie in the alleged conceptual apriority, but in the flexible pursuit of reasonable epistemic goals
    Source: Croatian journal of philosophy. - ISSN 1333-1108 (Vol. 1, no. 1, 2001, str. 21-48)
    Type of material - article, component part ; adult, serious
    Publish date - 2001
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 10943496

source: Croatian journal of philosophy. - ISSN 1333-1108 (Vol. 1, no. 1, 2001, str. 21-48)

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