A reply to Churchland's `perceptual plasticity and theoretical neutrality'
Philosophy of Science 55 (June):188-98 (1988)
| Abstract | Churchland's paper "Perceptual Plasticity and Theoretical Neutrality" offers empirical, semantical and epistemological arguments intended to show that the cognitive impenetrability of perception "does not establish a theory-neutral foundation for knowledge" and that the psychological account of perceptual encapsulation that I set forth in The Modularity of Mind "[is] almost certainly false". The present paper considers these arguments in detail and dismisses them | |||||||||
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