Coordinated pluralism as a means to facilitate integrative taxonomies of cognition

Authors

Jacqueline Anne Sullivan, Rotman Institute of Philosophy

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-4-2017

Journal

Philosophical Explorations

Volume

20

Issue

2

First Page

129

Last Page

145

URL with Digital Object Identifier

10.1080/13869795.2017.1312497

Abstract

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The past decade has witnessed a growing awareness of conceptual and methodological hurdles within psychology and neuroscience that must be addressed for taxonomic and explanatory progress in understanding psychological functions to be possible. In this paper, I evaluate several recent knowledge-building initiatives aimed at overcoming these obstacles. I argue that while each initiative offers important insights about how to facilitate taxonomic and explanatory progress in psychology and neuroscience, only a “coordinated pluralism” that incorporates positive aspects of each initiative will have the potential for success.

Notes

This is a pre-publication of an article published in Philosophical Explorations.

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