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You can't get there from here: Foundationalism and development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2011

Jedediah W. P. Allen  and
Mark H. Bickhard
Jedediah W. P. Allen
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015. jwa204@lehigh.edu
Mark H. Bickhard
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015. mhb0@lehigh.edu
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Abstract

The thesis of our commentary is that the framework used to address what are taken by Carey to be the open issues is highly problematic. The presumed necessity of an innate stock of representational primitives fails to account for the emergence of representation out of a nonrepresentational base. This failure manifests itself in problematic ways throughout Carey's book.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 34 , Issue 3 , June 2011 , pp. 124 - 125
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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