What do plants and bacteria want? Commentary on Carrie Figdor ' s Pieces of mind
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21502020 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edouard Machery (0000-0002-9944-6138, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Center for Philosophy of Science University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pennsylvania USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 677-686 |
| Publication date | 2020-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mind & Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0268-1064 • E-ISSN: 1468-0017 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/mila.12324 |
| OpenAlex | W3107743011 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 8 |
In Pieces of mind , Figdor examines how to interpret psychological predicates that scientists assign to entities that commonsensically do not have a mind such as neurons and plants. She claims that these predicates are used literally to refer to the same structures in humans and non‐human entities. I argue on the contrary that most uses of this kind are merely the extension of preexisting, possibly behaviorist senses of the relevant psychological predicates
Cognitive science · Epistemology · Metaphysics · Philosophy of mind · Animal and Plant Science Education · Computer Science · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Philosophy · Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |