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  • Chapter 9 - Epilogue

  • Muhammad Ali Khalidi, City University of New York
  • Book:
    Cognitive Ontology
    Published online:
    15 January 2023
    Print publication:
    05 January 2023, pp 231-242

  • Summary

    This chapter brings together some of the main themes that run through the previous chapters, namely: the etiological-environmental individuation of cognitive kinds; the advantages of a real-kind approach to cognitive ontology; and the purview of cognitive neuroscience. On the first score, I distinguish the variety of externalism defended in this book from the familiar varieties in the philosophical literature. On the second, I show how taxonomic practices in cognitive science can benefit from reflecting on the overarching ontological categories in the cognitive domain and from greater clarity in distinguishing relationships among different kinds of kinds (for example, subordinate and superordinate kinds). On the third point, I argue that the scientific discipline of cognitive neuroscience, which aims to build bridges between neural and cognitive taxonomies, need not revolve around the search for neural correlates of cognitive kinds.