The Need for a New Account of the Evolution of Representational Decision Making
The Need for a New Account of the Evolution of Representational Decision Making
This chapter discusses in some detail three of the key accounts of the evolution of representational decision making in the literature: (a) Ruth Millikan’s specialization-based account, (b) causality-based accounts, and (c) Kim Sterelny’s flexibility-based account. It shows that while this work makes some very important suggestions that should not be overlooked, by itself, it fails to provide a detailed and well-grounded account of the evolution of representational decision making.
Keywords: pushmi-pullyu representations, causal reasoning, environmental complexity
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