Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2022
The following analysis shows how developments in epistemic logic can play a nontrivial role in cognitive neuroscience. We argue that the striking correspondence between two modes of identification, as distinguished in the epistemic context, and two cognitive systems distinguished by neuroscientific investigation of the visual system (the “where” and “what” systems) is not coincidental, and that it can play a clarificatory role at the most fundamental levels of neuroscientific theory.
We would like to thank Bill Bechtel, John Bickle, Daniel Dennett, Jacques Dubucs, Juliet Floyd, Aaron Garrett, Shahid Rahman, and Lucia Vaina for comments on earlier drafts of this paper. We would also like to thank two anonymous referees for very useful suggestions.