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A modern materialist approach to abstraction, concreteness, and explanation in cognition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2020

Richard Shillcock Open the ORCID record for Richard Shillcock [Opens in a new window]
Richard Shillcock*
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Department of Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, EdinburghEH8 9JZ, UK. rcs@inf.ed.ac.uk https://sites.google.com/site/rcspplsinf/home
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Abstract

Although endorsing the authors’ concentration on the issue of abstraction, I critique (a) the philosophical nature of their abstract–concrete dimension, (b) their view of the brain–world barrier, and (c) their implicit positivist one-way hierarchy that has abstraction as the goal.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 43 , 2020 , e148
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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