CfP: What are inferences? Reflections from philosophy and cognitive science

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What are inferences? Reflections from philosophy and cognitive science

Estudios de Filosofía

No 76, June-December 2027

Philosophy journal

 

 

 

Inference lies at the heart of cognition, yet what counts as an inference —and how it ought to be analysed— remains a contentious philosophical topic. The classical view frames it as a conscious, rule-governed transition between propositionally structured beliefs, carried out at the personal level and accountable to logic. New work across philosophy, psychology, and artificial intelligence reveals a more complex picture: sub-personal systems that draw conclusions without reflective oversight, non-linguistic representations, like maps, diagrams, and vector spaces, that underlie different reasoning processes, and ampliative or probabilistic transitions that escape from strict logical analysis. This special issue aims to explore the diverse forms that inference can take and to examine how this plurality challenges the core assumptions of the classical view (i.e., its commitments to propositional structure, logical form, and personal-level agency, among others).

Estudios de Filosofía is the journal published by the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Antioquia. It is an international peer-reviewed open-access electronic journal and adheres to the policy of double-blind peer review. Since its foundation in 1990, Estudios de Filosofía has sought to foster the creation and dissemination of research in all fields of philosophy. The journal accepts papers in Spanish and English.

 

Editors:

Mariela Aguilera – Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina)

 

Matías Osta Vélez – Universidad de la República (Uruguay)