Publication:
Patterns in Cognitive Phenomena and Pluralism of Explanatory Styles

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorPotochnik, Angela
dc.contributor.authorSanches de Oliveira, Guilherme
dc.contributor.departmentFilosofía
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-23T11:21:57Z
dc.date.available2026-02-23T11:21:57Z
dc.date.copyright© 2019 Cognitive Science Society, Inc.
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractDebate about cognitive science explanations has been formulated in terms of identifying the proper level(s) of explanation. Views range from reductionist, favoring only neuroscience explanations, to mechanist, favoring the integration of multiple levels, to pluralist, favoring the preservation of even the most general, high-level explanations, such as those provided by embodied or dynamical approaches. In this paper, we challenge this framing. We suggest that these are not different levels of explanation at all but, rather, different styles of explanation that capture different, cross-cutting patterns in cognitive phenomena. Which pattern is explanatory depends on both the cognitive phenomenon under investigation and the research interests occasioning the explanation. This reframing changes how we should answer the basic questions of which cognitive science approaches explain and how these explanations relate to one another. On this view, we should expect different approaches to offer independent explanations in terms of their different focal patterns and the value of those explanations to partly derive from the broad patterns they feature. [online first, 2019]
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.format.extent22
dc.identifier.citationPotochnik, A., & Sanches de Oliveira, G. (2020). Patterns in Cognitive Phenomena and Pluralism of Explanatory Styles. Top Cogn Sci, 12: 1306-1320. DOI: 10.1111/tops.12481
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12481
dc.identifier.eissn1756-8765
dc.identifier.issn1756-8757
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10201/210361
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relationSin financiación externa a la Universidad
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tops.12481
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.accessRightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectExplanatory pluralism
dc.subjectReductionism
dc.subjectMechanism
dc.subjectEmbodied cognitive science
dc.subjectLevels of explanation
dc.subject.odsNo relacionado con ningún objetivo de desarrollo sostenible
dc.titlePatterns in Cognitive Phenomena and Pluralism of Explanatory Styles
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
dspace.entity.typePublicationes
relation.isAuthorOfPublication60f0aa5a-7048-4323-a66d-a29676e28baa
relation.isAuthorOfPublication.latestForDiscovery60f0aa5a-7048-4323-a66d-a29676e28baa
Files
Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
2019 - Potochnik and Sanches de Oliveira - Patterns in Cognitive Phenomena and Pluralism of Explanatory Styles (PREPRINT).pdf
Size:
179.78 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.37 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:
Download
Collections
Artículos