Empirismo de conceptos: Un tratamiento de la evidencia para los vehículos representacionales amodales
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En las últimas décadas, las teorías empiristas de conceptos han logrado tener cierto peso en psicología y en filosofía. En este trabajo me propongo evaluar el apoyo empírico que posee la teoría de conceptos de Prinz (2002, 2005), según la cual todos los conceptos y procesos cognitivos se encuentran vehiculados por representaciones modales. En particular, me propongo evaluar si, y en qué medida, la evidencia empírica citada por el empirismo de conceptos es favorable a dicha teoría y, en segundo lugar, me propongo considerar el caso de las representaciones numéricas, en tanto parece ser un caso que desafía la suficiencia del empirismo de conceptos para dar cuenta de todos los fenómenos que una teoría de conceptos debería explicar.
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