Inferential basing and mental models

Rosa, Luis (2017): Inferential basing and mental models. In: Philosophical Psychology, Bd. 30, Nr. 43132: S. 102-118

Abstract

In this paper, I flesh out an account of the inferential basing relation using a theory about how humans reason: the mental models theory. I critically assess some of the notions that are used by that theory to account for inferential phenomena. To the extent that the mental models theory is well confirmed, that account of basing would be motivated on empirical grounds. This work illustrates how epistemologists could offer explications of the basing relation which are more detailed and less empirically risky.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie und Religionswissenschaft > Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP)
• Themengebiete: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie > 100 Philosophie ; 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 510 Mathematik
• ISSN: 0951-5089
• Sprache: Englisch