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Observation Reconsidered

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Jerry Fodor
Jerry Fodor*
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Department of Psychology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Abstract

Several arguments are considered which purport to demonstrate the impossibility of theory-neutral observation. The most important of these infers the continuity of observation with theory from the presumed continuity of perception with cognition, a doctrine widely espoused in recent cognitive psychology. An alternative psychological account of the relation between cognition and perception is proposed and its epistemological consequences for the observation/theory distinction are then explored.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 51 , Issue 1 , March 1984, pp. 23 - 43
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1984

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