Shepherd Joshua
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Synthese. 2021;198(Suppl 17):4143-4162. doi: 10.1007/s11229-018-1892-7. Epub 2018 Aug 16.
My topic is the intelligent guidance of action. In this paper I offer an empirically grounded case for four ideas: that [a] cognitive processes of practical reasoning play a key role in the intelligent guidance of action, [b] these processes could not do so without significant enabling work done by both perception and the motor system, [c] the work done by perceptual and motor systems can be characterized as the generation of information (often conceptually structured information) specialized for action guidance, which in turn suggests that [d] the cognitive processes of practical reasoning that play a key role in the guidance of intelligent action are not the abstract, syllogistic ones philosophers often treat as the paradigm of practical reasoning. Rather, these cognitive processes are constrained by, and work well with, the specialized concepts outputted by perception and the feedback outputted by sensorimotor processes.
我的主题是行动的智能引导。在本文中，我基于实证为四个观点提供了依据：其一，实践推理的认知过程在行动的智能引导中发挥着关键作用；其二，若没有感知和运动系统所做的重要辅助工作，这些过程便无法发挥此作用；其三，感知和运动系统所做的工作可被描述为生成专门用于行动引导的信息（通常是概念性结构化信息），这进而表明，其四，在智能行动引导中发挥关键作用的实践推理的认知过程并非哲学家们常视为实践推理范式的抽象三段论过程。相反，这些认知过程受到感知输出的专门概念以及感觉运动过程输出的反馈的制约，并与之协同良好。
