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The Mark of the Cognitive: Reply to Elpidorou

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In a recent paper, Adams and Garrison (Minds Mach 23:339–352, 2013) offer an hypothesis about what constitutes the mark of the cognitive. In an even more recent paper, Elpidorou (Minds Mach, 2013) offers criticisms of our account. In this paper, we respond to Elpidourou’s criticisms and defend our account of the mark of the cognitive.

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  1. University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA

    Fred Adams & Rebecca Garrison

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Adams, F., Garrison, R. The Mark of the Cognitive: Reply to Elpidorou. Minds & Machines 24, 213–216 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-013-9336-0

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