On the realism of human and machine representational constraints

a functionalist account on cognitive ontologies

David Zarebski

pp. 347-363

in: Gordana Dodig Crnkovic, Raffaela Giovagnoli (eds), Representation and reality in humans, other living organisms and intelligent machines, Berlin, Springer, 2017

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the primitive constraints on Information Systems' and Humans' representations of the reality. We intend to support the idea that a proper understanding of what is at stake in Information Systems Ontologies (ISO) and its relation to the representational constraints in human cognition may solve a recent issue about the status of philosophical intuitions in metaphysics.