On the Underpinning Mechanisms of (Epistemically) Reliable Processes

Majid Davoody Beni

2019

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DOI 10.1163/22105700-20191372
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Abstract

Abstract The paper aims to evaluate the success of two different philosophical interpretations of prediction error minimisation theory in dissolving a notorious problem of philosophy, i.e., the New Evil Demon Problem ( ned ). In this paper, I argue that the inferentialist interpretation could not dissolve the strong form of ned . Alternatively, the embodied construaldissolves ned . However, in doing so, i.e., in dispensing with the cognitive judgment, the embodied construal might also eliminate some basic concepts of epistemology.