{"pk":27346,"title":"Dissolving the Grounding Problem: How the Pen is Mightier than the Sword","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The computational metaphor for mind is still the central guiding idea in cognitive science despite many insightfuland well-founded rejections of it. There is good reason for its staying power: when we are at our cognitive best, we reasonabout our world with our concepts. But the challengers are right, I argue, in insisting that no reductive account of that capacityis forthcoming. Here I describe an externalist account that grounds representations in organism-level engagement with itsenvironment, not in its neural activity.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9220d3qg","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Nancy","middle_name":"","last_name":"Salay","name_suffix":"","institution":"Queen’s University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27346/galley/16982/download/"}]}