对激进的具身认知科学的一个批判

Radical Embodied Cognition vs.Classical Embodied Neuroscience

随着经典认知科学失去半壁江山,认知神经科学已成为认知科学的主导范式。在《激进的具身认知科学》(2009)一书中,Chemero提出了取消主义纲领,即我们不必用表征概念来阐明认知过程。通过进一步考察认知过程的一些实例,可以看出表征的取消主义并不是一个站得住脚的立场。因此,激进的具身认知科学不是一个有效的研究纲领。

This paper tries to show that Chemero's conclusion is unwarranted because it is based on a very restricted and oriented choice of cognitive processes.It is to examine further examples of cognitive processes,which have generally been seen as prototypical examples of complex cognitive processes,necessarily based on representations.Chemero's eliminativism of representations is unfounded,and radical embodied cognitive science is not an effective research program.