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44Language, concepts, and the nature of inferenceIn Carlos Enrique Caorsi & Ricardo J. Navia (eds.), Philosophy of language in Uruguay: language, meaning, and philosophy, Lexington Books. pp. 181-196. 2024.Traditionally, analytic philosophy has been affiliated with a formalist conception of inference which understands reasoning as a process that exploits syntactic properties of natural language according to a set of formal rules that are insensitive to conceptual content. This chapter discusses an alternative approach that takes semantic properties as the underlying forces driving rational inference. Building on Wilfird Sellars’ notion of material inference and analytic tools from cognitive lingui…Read more
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235Reasoning with Concepts: A Unifying FrameworkMinds and Machines 1 (3): 451-485. 2023.Over the past few decades, cognitive science has identified several forms of reasoning that make essential use of conceptual knowledge. Despite significant theoretical and empirical progress, there is still no unified framework for understanding how concepts are used in reasoning. This paper argues that the theory of conceptual spaces is capable of filling this gap. Our strategy is to demonstrate how various inference mechanisms which clearly rely on conceptual information—including similarity, …Read more
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279Analogy as a search procedure: A dimensional viewJournal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 1. 2022.In this paper, we outline a comprehensive approach to composed analogies based on the theory of conceptual spaces. Our algorithmic model understands analogy as a search procedure and builds upon the idea that analogical similarity depends on a conceptual phenomena called ‘dimensional salience.’ We distinguish between category-based, property-based, event-based, and part-whole analogies, and propose computationally-oriented methods for explicating them in terms of conceptual spaces.
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20Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Expectations Orderings, and Conceptual SpacesJournal of Logic, Language and Information 31 (1): 77-97. 2021.In Gärdenfors and Makinson :197–245, 1994) and Gärdenfors it was shown that it is possible to model nonmonotonic inference using a classical consequence relation plus an expectation-based ordering of formulas. In this article, we argue that this framework can be significantly enriched by adopting a conceptual spaces-based analysis of the role of expectations in reasoning. In particular, we show that this can solve various epistemological issues that surround nonmonotonic and default logics. We p…Read more
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32Inference and the structure of conceptsDissertation, Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München. 2020.This thesis studies the role of conceptual content in inference and reasoning. The first two chapters offer a theoretical and historical overview of the relation between inference and meaning in philosophy and psychology. In particular, a critical analysis of the formality thesis, i.e., the idea that rational inference is a rule-based and topic-neutral mechanism, is advanced. The origins of this idea in logic and its influence in philosophy and cognitive psychology are discussed. Chapter 3 consi…Read more
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12Review of Selene Arfini, Ignorant Cognition, Springer, 2019 (review)Studies in Philosophy and Education 40 (2): 231-236. 2021.
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523Category-based induction in conceptual spacesJournal of Mathematical Psychology 96. 2020.Category-based induction is an inferential mechanism that uses knowledge of conceptual relations in order to estimate how likely is for a property to be projected from one category to another. During the last decades, psychologists have identified several features of this mechanism, and they have proposed different formal models of it. In this article; we propose a new mathematical model for category-based induction based on distances on conceptual spaces. We show how this model can predict most…Read more
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43The enigma of reasonPhilosophical Psychology 32 (6): 995-999. 2017.Volume 32, Issue 6, August 2019, Page 995-999.
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25Methods of Representation as Inferential DevicesJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 50 (2): 231-245. 2019.In this article I am going to reconstruct Stephen Toulmin’s procedural theory of concepts and explanations in order to develop two overlooked ideas from his philosophy of science: methods of representations and inferential techniques. I argue that these notions, when properly articulated, could be useful for shedding some light on how scientific reasoning is related to representational structures, concepts, and explanation within scientific practices. I will explore and illustrate these ideas by…Read more
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812Logique, Raisonnement et RationalitéDissertation, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. 2014.
Düsseldorf, NRW, Germany
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
Reasoning |
Semantics |
Areas of Interest
Aesthetics |
Philosophy of Mathematics |
Epistemology of Mathematics |
Philosophy of Language |