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An alternate route toward a science of mind

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2002

David A. Schwartz
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina-Asheville, Asheville, NC 28804 dschwartz@unca.edu

Abstract

Shepard has challenged psychologists to identify nonarbitrary principles of mind upon which to build a more explanatory and general cognitive science. I suggest that such nonarbitrary principles may fruitfully be sought not only in the laws of physics and mathematics, but also in the logical entailments of different categories of representation. In the example offered here, conceptualizing mental events as indexical with respect to the events they represent enables one to account parsimoniously for a wide range of empirical psychological phenomena. [Shepard]

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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