An additional heterogeneity hypothesis.
In this commentary, I make three points concerning Machery's response to neo-empiricism. First, his methodological critique fails to remove the threat that neo-empiricism poses to his conceptual eliminativism. Second, evidence suggests that there are multiple semantic codes, some of which are not perceptually based. Third, this representational heterogeneity thwarts neo-empiricism but also raises questions with respect to how we should "do without concepts."
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Department of Philosophy, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40297, USA. guy.dove@louisville.edu
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