从表征推理到动缘拾取:激进具身趋势如何改变认知科学
From Representation Reasoning to Picking up Affordances:How the Radical Embodiment Trend Changes Cognitive Science
王宇轩 1薛少华2
作者信息
- 1. 中国人民大学哲学院,北京 100872
- 2. 北京理工大学教育学院,北京 100081
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摘要
表征主义将认知理解为具有语义内容的表征符号推理,而表征成为知觉与行动的中介,经典认知科学将其作为核心工作假设.然而,其中所隐藏的二元论立场在当下受到激烈的质疑.为了论证表征主义合理性,一些学者提出基于行动导向表征概念.但是,将表征置于行动之中的辩护方案已经在事实上取消了表征,这更接近于吉布森所提出的动缘概念:认知被理解为一种知觉与行动直接耦合的过程,认知者可以直接拾取环境中的动缘.这一理论通过与动力系统等方法的结合,得以给出一种针对认知解释的新视角:以过程和关系替代实体与属性.这种新视角不仅在认知科学研究中作为方法论起到重要的作用,还在本体论和价值理论中具有丰富的哲学内涵.
Abstract
Representationalism interprets cognition as the inferential manipulation of representational symbols with semantic content.Representations serve as mediators between perception and action,constituting a core assumption in classical cognitive science.However,the dualistic stance has been challenged in contemporary discourse.To de-fend the plausibility of representationalism,the theory of action-oriented representation is proposed.Nevertheless,situating representations within actions essentially negates the notion of representation,aligning closer to Gibson's concept of affordance:cognition is a direct coupling process of perception and action,in which agents can pick up affordances directly without any fixed states or symbols.Through integration with methodologies such as dynamical systems,the affordance theory offers a novel perspective on the essence of cognition:replacing entities and attrib-utes with processes and relationships.This new perspective not only plays a crucial methodological role in cognitive science but also holds significant philosophical implications for ontology and value theory.
关键词
表征主义/认知科学/行动导向表征/动缘/激进具身认知Key words
representationalism/cognitive science/action-oriented representation/affordance/radical embodied cognition引用本文复制引用
基金项目
国家社会科学基金一般项目(22BZX020)
出版年
2024
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NSTL
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