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Cognitive dynamics: Red Queen semantics versus the story of O

Authors :
Ludlow Peter
Source :
Belgrade Philosophical Annual, Vol 35, Iss 2, Pp 53-67 (2022)
Publication Year :
2022
Publisher :
University of Belgrade - Faculty of Philosophy - Institute for Philosophy, 2022.

Abstract

It appears that indexicals must have fine-grained senses for us to explain things involving human action and emotions, and we typically identify these different senses with different modes of expression. On the other hand, we also express the very same thought in very different ways. The first problem is the problem of cognitive significance. The second problem is what Branquinho (1999) has called the problem of cognitive dynamics. The question is how we can solve both of those problems at the same time. Vojislav Božičković (2021) offers one solution in which the cognitive dynamics runs through the objects of the attitudes. I discuss this solution and offer an alternative in which the theory of cognitive dynamics has no use for the objects of the attitudes to unify expressions of attitudes. When we say or believe "the same thing" using different modes of expressions, it is by virtue of our deploying a dynamic theory of attitude expression. Like Lewis Carrol's Red Queen, we must run to stay in place.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
03533891 and 29560357
Volume :
35
Issue :
2
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Belgrade Philosophical Annual
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.49b756c763e04fb59530d825a88a77fb
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.5937/BPA2202053L