Individuating Cognitive Characters: Lessons from Praying Mantises and Plants
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This article advances the development of a phylogeny-based psychology in which cognitive ability types are individuated as characters in the evolutionary biological sense. I explain the character concept and its utility in addressing (or dissolving) conceptual problems arising from discoveries of cognitive abilities across a wide range of species. I use the examples of stereopsis in the praying mantis, internal cell-to-cell signaling in plants, and episodic memory in scrub jays to show how anthropocentric cognitive ability types can be reformulated into cognitive characters, thereby promoting the integration of psychology with other sciences of evolved traits.
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The anthropocentric strategy picks out features of the human phenotype and illicitly treats them as the trait.
“The anthropocentric strategy, in other words, picks out features of the human phenotype and illicitly treats them as the trait.”
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The trait-individuation problem is both under-appreciated and remains largely unresolved within theoretical evolutionary biology and has rarely been explicitly addressed in cognitive science.
“This is not the trivial point about the need to clearly articulate an explanandum: the trait-individuation problem is both under-appreciated and remains largely unresolved within theoretical evolutionary biology and it has rarely been explicitly addressed in cognitive science (see [49] for an exception that proves the rule).”
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- Figdor, C.
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- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Embodied and Extended Cognition
- Keywords
- character concept, evolutionary biology, Mantodea, stereopsis, episodic memory, scrub jay, anthropocentrism, animal cognition
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