ABSTRACTNeurosciences and cognitive sciences provide us with myriad empirical findings that shed light on hypothesised primitive numerical processes in the brain and in the mind. Yet, the hypotheses on which the experiments are based, and hence the results, depend strongly on sophisticated abstract models used to describe and explain neural data or cognitive representations that supposedly are the empirical roots of primary arithmetical activity. I will question the foundational role of such models. I will even cast doubt upon the search for a general and unified philosophical foundation of an empirical science. First, it seems to me hard to draw a global and coherent view from the innumerable and piecemeal neuropsychological experiments and their variable, and sometimes uneasily compatible or fully divergent interpretations. Secondly, I think that the aim of empirical research is to describe dynamical processes, establishing correlations between different sets of data, without meaning to fix an origin or...

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数字的神经哲学

摘要神经科学和认知科学为我们提供了无数的经验发现，这些发现为我们在大脑和大脑中假设的原始数值过程提供了启示。然而，这些实验所基于的假设以及因此而得到的结果，在很大程度上取决于用来描述和解释神经数据或认知表示的复杂抽象模型，这些数据或假设是主要算术活动的经验根源。我将质疑此类模型的基本作用。我什至会对寻求经验科学的一般性和统一性哲学基础提出疑问。首先，在我看来，很难从无数零散的神经心理学实验及其可变的，有时是不相容的或完全分歧的解释中得出全局和连贯的观点。其次，