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The reinterpretation hypothesis: Explanation or redescription?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2008

José Luis Bermúdez
José Luis Bermúdez
Affiliation:
Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130. bermudez@wustl.edu
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Abstract

Penn et al. propose the relational reinterpretation hypothesis as an explanation of the profound discontinuities that they identify between human and nonhuman cognition. This hypothesis is not a genuine replacement for the explanations that they reject, however, because as it stands, it simply redescribes the phenomena it is trying to explain.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , April 2008 , pp. 131 - 132
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Copyright ©Cambridge University Press 2008

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