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Linguistic Convergence in Verbs for Belief-forming Processes

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

This paper has two goals. First, it aims to investigate the empirical assumptions of a recent proposal due to Olsson (forthcoming), according to which the generality problem for process-reliabilism can be approached by recruiting patterns and models from the basic-level research in cognitive psychology. Second, the paper attempts to generalize findings in the basic-level literature pertaining to concrete nouns to the abstract verbs that denote belief-forming processes. I will demonstrate that verbs for belief-forming processes exhibit the kind of linguistic convergence that is characteristic of basic-level words, although these words are not neatly taxonomically organized or associated with large feature sets. Next, I will evaluate and partially validate Olsson's proposal in light of these findings. I will provide some discussion of possible explanations of the results are discussed, as well as the impact these results have for structural models of basic-level advantage, and for the feasibility of the explanatory strategy that these models presuppose. Finally, I will conclude that even though no particular model is compromised by these results, they call into question the underlying explanatory strategy by highlighting its parochial nature.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2015

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

114-138

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Philosophical Psychology

Volym

28

Issue

1-2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Taylor & Francis

Ämne

  • Philosophy

Nyckelord

  • Basic-Level Categories
  • Mental Terms
  • Reliabilism

Status

Published

Projekt

  • Knowledge and reliability: a systematic study of reliabilism

Forskningsgrupp

  • Lund University Information Quality Research Group (LUIQ)

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1465-394X