认知的封闭

科学哲学和心灵哲学中，认知的封闭是指，人类的心灵是没有能力解决一些讨论了很久的哲学问题的。^[1] 欧文·弗兰纳根（英语：Owen Flanagan）把这种立场叫做非建设性自然主义。新神秘主义的首提倡者柯林·麦金（英语：Colin McGinn），^[2]^[3]称其为先验自然主义，承认解决方法可能只能由某种非人类智慧生物提出。根据麦金，难以解决的哲学问题包括心物问题、人格同一性、意义问题（英语：meaning (philosophy of language)）、自由意志以及知识论，无论是从先天证明的角度，还是从经验主义的立场^[4]。

人物

柯林·麦金

哈耶克：对于弗里德里希·哈耶克，解释心灵问题本身就是个逻辑上的矛盾，这种不完全性（心灵解释自己的无能）是哥德尔不完备定理的一个例子。哈耶克不是自然主义不可知论者，即那些认为科学目前不能提供身心问题解释的人。哈耶克认为，彻底上，这个问题就是解不开。^[5]

约翰·廷德尔：见John Tyndall (1871)，Fragments of Science。

诺姆·乔姆斯基：诺姆·乔姆斯基认为，所有认知能力都在生物学上被限制。^[6]见Noam Chomsky，Language and problems of knowledge。

现象和本体

伊曼努尔·康德在《纯粹理性批判》中，认为人类的思想不可避免地受到范畴的限制。

量的范畴 – 单一、多数、全体

质的范畴 – 实在、否定、限制
关系的范畴 – 依存性和自存性（实性和偶性）、因果性和独立性、协同性

模态的范畴 – 可能性（英语：Logical possibility）或不可能性、存在或不存在、必然或偶然。

这些限制了人类的思维。可以了解的是现象，范畴之外不可了解的是本体，即物自体。

新神秘主义

变成蝙蝠会怎样？汤玛斯·内格尔这样发问。他提到了对于经验的主观性（英语：subjective character of experience）认知封闭的可能性，以及其对于唯物主义、还原论、科学的意义。欧文·弗拉纳根（英语：Owen Flanagan）在1991年的著作《心灵的科学》（Science of the Mind）中提到，一些当代思想家认为意识永远不会得到解释。弗拉纳根把他们叫做“新神秘主义者”，根据的是乐队Question Mark and the Mysterians（英语：Question Mark and the Mysterians）的名字^[7]根据麦金，心物问题的正确答案不能被理解，深深地写在我们的基因里面。

显现唯物论是个类似但不同的理论，认为人类还不够聪明以决定“心灵与物质的关系”。^{[来源请求]}^[可疑]

批判

尽管意识的本性是复杂的，但是根据一些哲学家，这并不意味着认知的封闭性，因此，麦金的论证是错误的。^[8]^[9]^[10]

参见

参考资料

^ Leslie Marsh (ed.), Hayek in Mind: Hayek's Philosophical Psychology, Emerald Group Publishing, 2011, p. xv.
^ Harris, Errol E, Reflections on the Problem of Consciousness: 51, 2006, McGinn's stance, while he denies the possibility of ever understanding the causal connection, may be regarded as "naturalistic" in the sense that he does not reject the validity of neuro-physiological theory, and does not doubt that brain activity accompanies conscious states. .
^ Ross Wilson (ed.), The Meaning of "Life" in Romantic Poetry and Poetics, Routledge, 2009, p. 88: "[McGinn] calls his stance "transcendental naturalism..."
^ McGinn, Colin. The Problem of Philosophy. Philosophical Studies. 1994, 76 (2–3): 133–56 [2020-02-25]. doi:10.1007/bf00989821. （原始内容存档于2019-12-10）. it combines deep epistemic transcendence with the denial that what thus transcends is thereby non-natural.
^ Butos, W.N. The Social Science of Hayek's The Sensory Order. Advances in [[奥地利经济学派|]]. Emerald. 2010: 127–28 [2020-02-25]. ISBN 978-1-84950975-6. （原始内容存档于2020-08-12）. 1. Explanation is delimited by the apparatus of classification (the mind)... 2. An apparatus of classification cannot explain anything more complex than itself... 3. Therefore, the mind cannot fully explain itself...
^ Chomsky, Noam, Language and problems of knowledge: 152, 1988 .
^ Flanagan, Owen. The Science of the Mind. 麻省理工学院出版社. 1991: 313. ISBN 978-0-262-56056-6.
^ Garvey, James. What Does McGinn Think We Cannot Know?. Analysis. July 1997, 57 (3): 196–201. doi:10.1111/1467-8284.00074. Nothing he says gets him the conclusion that we cannot solve the mind-body problem, given any of these interpretations of what is cognitively closed to us
^ Kirk, Robert. Why Shouldn't We Be Able to Solve the Mind-Body Problem?. Analysis. January 1991, 51 (1): 17–23. JSTOR 3328626. doi:10.2307/3328626. He recognizes that many will find this outrageous; and indeed I think that his reasoning is fundamentally flawed and his central thesis false. But it will be worth trying to discover what has gone wrong.
^ Kriegel, Uriah. The new mysterianism and the thesis of cognitive closure. Acta Analytica. December 2003, 18 (1–2): 177–191. doi:10.1007/s12136-003-1020-1. it is incoherent to suppose that we cannot understand what would count as a solution to a problem we can and do understand

[1] Leslie Marsh (ed.), Hayek in Mind: Hayek's Philosophical Psychology, Emerald Group Publishing, 2011, p. xv.

[2] Harris, Errol E, Reflections on the Problem of Consciousness: 51, 2006, McGinn's stance, while he denies the possibility of ever understanding the causal connection, may be regarded as "naturalistic" in the sense that he does not reject the validity of neuro-physiological theory, and does not doubt that brain activity accompanies conscious states. .

[3] Ross Wilson (ed.), The Meaning of "Life" in Romantic Poetry and Poetics, Routledge, 2009, p. 88: "[McGinn] calls his stance "transcendental naturalism..."

[McGinn1994-4] McGinn, Colin. The Problem of Philosophy. Philosophical Studies. 1994, 76 (2–3): 133–56 [2020-02-25]. doi:10.1007/bf00989821. （原始内容存档于2019-12-10）. it combines deep epistemic transcendence with the denial that what thus transcends is thereby non-natural.

[Butos2010-5] Butos, W.N. The Social Science of Hayek's The Sensory Order. Advances in [[奥地利经济学派|]]. Emerald. 2010: 127–28 [2020-02-25]. ISBN 978-1-84950975-6. （原始内容存档于2020-08-12）. 1. Explanation is delimited by the apparatus of classification (the mind)... 2. An apparatus of classification cannot explain anything more complex than itself... 3. Therefore, the mind cannot fully explain itself...

[6] Chomsky, Noam, Language and problems of knowledge: 152, 1988 .

[7] Flanagan, Owen. The Science of the Mind. 麻省理工学院出版社. 1991: 313. ISBN 978-0-262-56056-6.

[8] Garvey, James. What Does McGinn Think We Cannot Know?. Analysis. July 1997, 57 (3): 196–201. doi:10.1111/1467-8284.00074. Nothing he says gets him the conclusion that we cannot solve the mind-body problem, given any of these interpretations of what is cognitively closed to us

[9] Kirk, Robert. Why Shouldn't We Be Able to Solve the Mind-Body Problem?. Analysis. January 1991, 51 (1): 17–23. JSTOR 3328626. doi:10.2307/3328626. He recognizes that many will find this outrageous; and indeed I think that his reasoning is fundamentally flawed and his central thesis false. But it will be worth trying to discover what has gone wrong.

[10] Kriegel, Uriah. The new mysterianism and the thesis of cognitive closure. Acta Analytica. December 2003, 18 (1–2): 177–191. doi:10.1007/s12136-003-1020-1. it is incoherent to suppose that we cannot understand what would count as a solution to a problem we can and do understand

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