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      La indispensabilidad de las leyes en ciencias cognitivas Translated title: The indispensability of laws in cognitive science

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          Resumen Partiendo de la distinción filosófica entre las leyes de la ciencia y las leyes de la naturaleza, en el presente artículo se defiende la indispensabilidad explicativa de las leyes de la ciencia en el campo de las ciencias cognitivas. Se sostiene que las leyes de la ciencia desempeñan un papel epistémico indispensable tanto en el análisis funcional como en la explicación mecanicista de las capacidades cognitivas. De esta manera, se ofrece una elucidación plausible del poder explicativo de las ciencias cognitivas en términos del papel epistémico de las leyes de la ciencia, suspendiendo el juicio, de manera prudente, respecto del controvertido estatus metafísico de las leyes naturales. Se pone en evidencia que tanto quienes defienden como quienes rechazan el compromiso ontológico con leyes causales intencionales presuponen que esas leyes no contribuyen a la explicación funcionalista ni mecanicista de los fenómenos que describen. Sin embargo, en el presente trabajo se argumenta, primero, que el análisis funcional requiere la especificación de leyes científicas no causales y, segundo, que la representación científica precisa de las actividades y de la organización dinámica de un mecanismo se despliega mayoritariamente, en el contexto de un modelo mecanicista, mediante la especificación de leyes científicas. La conclusión es que las leyes científicas (aunque no necesariamente las leyes de la naturaleza) desempeñan un papel indispensable en la explicación en ciencias cognitivas.

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          Abstract Endorsing the philosophical distinction between laws of science and laws of nature, the present paper advocates for the explanatory indispensability of the laws of science in the field of the cognitive sciences. It is argued here that laws of science play an indispensable epistemic role both for functional analyses and mechanistic explanations of cognitive capacities. In this way, the paper provides a plausible explication of the explanatory power of the cognitive sciences while wisely bracketing the controversial metaphysical status of natural laws. It is argued that both the advocates and the detractors of intentional causal laws presuppose that those laws contribute neither to functional nor mechanistic explanations of target phenomena. However, the present paper shows, first, that functional analysis requires the specification of non-causal, scientific laws, and second, that the precise scientific representation of the activities and the dynamical organization of some mechanism is generally deployed, in the context of a mechanistic model, by specifying scientific laws. The conclusion is that the laws of science (but not necessarily the laws of nature) play an indispensable role in cognitive scientific explanations.

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                sophia
                Sophia, Colección de Filosofía de la Educación
                Sophia
                Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (Cuenca, Azuay, Ecuador )
                1390-3861
                1390-8626
                June 2021
                : 30
                : 95-123
                Affiliations
                [1] orgnameUniversidad de Buenos Aires Argentina sbarberis@ 123456filo.uba.ar
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                S1390-86262021000100095 S1390-8626(21)00003000095
                10.17163/soph.n30.2021.03
                101409e1-a2ae-4ac3-80c1-3e2283f7c0ee

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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                : 15 October 2020
                : 06 July 2020
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                Cognitivism,mechanism,law,explanation,función,dinámica,mecanismo,ley,explicación,Cognitivismo,function,dynamics

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