| Journal: | Ludus vitalis |
| Database: | CLASE |
| System number: | 000415904 |
| ISSN: | 1133-5165 |
| Authors: | Aguilera, Mariela1 |
| Institutions: | 1Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Facultad de Psicología, Córdoba. Argentina |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Volumen: | 22 |
| Number: | 42 |
| Pages: | 115-138 |
| Country: | México |
| Language: | Español |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Analítico, descriptivo |
| English abstract | Some philosophers, such as Davidson and McDowell, c laim that rationality involves a contrast between the subject ive and the objective, be - tween mind and world. For these authors, such contr ast merges into reflective thought, through linguistic competence. Millikan, i nstead, has argued that rationality can be placed within non linguistic cre atures, which exhibit a first contrast between mind and world by means of behavio ral flexibility, as a result of cognitive integration and affordances. In this p aper, I will identify what I call “cognitive flexibility”—a middle ground between reflective thought and behavioral flexibility. Cognitive flexibility paves the route to another sort of process-rationality, which results from reasoning a nd inference. Moreover, I argue that certain kinds of primates are rational i n this way through instru - mental reasoning |
| Disciplines: | Filosofía |
| Keyword: | Filosofía de la ciencia, Gnoseología, Racionalidad, Lenguaje, Cognición, Animales, Integración, Cognición, Estímulos, Razón instrumental, Inferencia |
| Full text: | Texto completo (Ver PDF) |
