Computational Vision Theory

Abstract

Our discussion so far has considered whether the propositional attitudes of folk psychology are individuated by appeal to factors in one’s social or physical contexts. And, though we are now in possession of reasons to be skeptical of such claims, it remains to be seen whether the scientific treatment of psychological states warrants a similar rejection of externalism.¹ In this chapter, I will begin to assess the plausibility of anti-individualism in the context of scientific psychology by considering the individuative implications of computational theories in psychology, in particular, computational theories of vision.