Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ New Paper in Draft: Dispositionalism, Yay! Representationalism, Boo! Plus, the Problem of Causal Specification

Stephen Downes

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I totally agree with this. "We should be dispositionalists rather than representationalists about belief," writes Eric Schwitzgebel. "According to dispositionalism, a person believes when they have the relevant pattern of behavioral, phenomenal, and cognitive dispositions. According to representationalism, a person believes when the right kind of representational content plays the right kind of causal role in their cognition. Representationalism overcommits on cognitive architecture, reifying a cartoon sketch of the mind."

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