激进生成认知何以是革命的?

How Radical Enactive Cognition Can Be Revolutionary?

激进生成认知(REC)认为心灵和认知的基础性状态和功能无需操纵表征内容,并坚持这种“基础心灵”的存在对认知科学哲学和心灵哲学来说是革命性的。REC的革命性特征受到一系列质疑。一些学者认为REC难以替代表征主义因而其革命无法成功;另一些学者认为它拥有内在主义特征因而难以具有革命性;还有学者认为它不符合革命性科学理论的标准。在分析这些质疑之后,可以提出一种以批判性能力为出发点来理解REC的革命性的新方式,并探讨该革命性会带来的更强的概念整合能力、更为宽广而融贯的自然主义和丰富的哲学后果。

Radical Enactive Cognition(REC)insists that basic cognitive or mental states need not manipulate representational content,and that admitting the existence of basic minds will bring revolutionary consequences to philosophy of cognitive science and to philosophy of mind in general.The revolutionary character,however,has been thrown into doubt.Some scholars think that REC anti-representationalism is not sustainable,some think that REC cannot achieve the claimed revolution because of its internalist character,and other believe that REC does not satisfy the criteria of revolutionary scientific theories.After studying these doubts,we propose a new criterion of revolution based on critique abilities,and argue that the REC’s revolutionary character understood in this way has a better conceptual integrative capacity,a more coherent and boarder naturalistic view,and richer philosophical consequences.