Structural Representations and the Explanatory Constraint

Croatian Journal of Philosophy 13 (2):277-291 (2013)
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My aim in this paper is to investigate what epistemic role, if any, do appeals to representations play in cognitive neuroscience. I suggest that while at present they seem to play something in between a minimal and a substantive explanatory role, there is reason to believe that representations have a substantial contribution to the construction of neuroscientic explanations of cognitive phenomena

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Maria Serban
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