The Two Visual Systems Hypothesis and Contrastive Underdetermination

TY - JOUR

T1 - The Two Visual Systems Hypothesis and Contrastive Underdetermination

AU - Grünbaum, Thor

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - This paper concerns local yet systematic problems of contrastive underdetermination of model choice in cognitive neuroscience debates about the so-called two visual systems hypothesis. The underdetermination problem is systematically generated by the way certain assumptions about the representationalist nature of computation are translated into experimental practice. The problem is that behavioural data underdetermine the choice between competing representational models. In this paper, I diagnose how these assumptions generate underdetermination problems in the choice between competing functional models of perception– action. Using the tools of philosophy of science, I describe the type of underdetermination and sketch a possible cure.

AB - This paper concerns local yet systematic problems of contrastive underdetermination of model choice in cognitive neuroscience debates about the so-called two visual systems hypothesis. The underdetermination problem is systematically generated by the way certain assumptions about the representationalist nature of computation are translated into experimental practice. The problem is that behavioural data underdetermine the choice between competing representational models. In this paper, I diagnose how these assumptions generate underdetermination problems in the choice between competing functional models of perception– action. Using the tools of philosophy of science, I describe the type of underdetermination and sketch a possible cure.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - Two visual systems hypothesis

KW - Underdetermination

KW - Philosophy of science

KW - Philosophy of cognitive neuroscience

KW - Model choice

U2 - 10.1007/s11229-018-01984-y

DO - 10.1007/s11229-018-01984-y

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0039-7857

JO - Synthese

JF - Synthese

ER -