Constitutive relevance in cognitive science: The case of eye movements and cognitive mechanisms |
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| Authors: | Dingmar van Eck |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts;2. Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts;1. Veterinary Physiology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, 3001 Bern, Switzerland;2. Department of Animal Science, Agriculture Faculty, Yasouj University, 75918-74831, Yasouj, I. R. Iran;1. College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100102, China;2. Hu Qiao Pharmaceutical Co. Engineering Research Center, Bozhou 236000, China;1. MOVE Research Institute Amsterdam, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Van der Boechorststraat 9, 1081BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands;2. Department of Neurological, Biomedical and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, 37131 Verona, Italy |
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| Abstract: | In this paper I assess whether the recently proposed “No De-Coupling” (NDC) theory of constitutive relevance in mechanisms is a useful tool to reconstruct constitutive relevance investigations in scientific practice. The NDC theory has been advanced as a framework theoretically superior to the mutual manipulability (MM) account of constitutive relevance in mechanisms but, in contrast to the MM account, has not yet been applied to detailed case studies. I argue that the NDC account is also applicable to empirical practice and that it fares better than the MM account on both theoretical and empirical grounds. I elaborate these claims in terms of applications of the NDC theory to two case studies of cognitive science research on the role of eye movements in mechanisms for cognitive capacities. |
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| Keywords: | Constitutive relevance Mechanism Mechanistic explanation Cognitive science |
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