[Ciclo de Conferências] Perceptual Content and Singular Thought

Title: Maps, Predication, and Inference

Abstract: Psychologists and neuroscientists claimed that cognitive maps play an important role in cognition, mainly in navigation. Their empirical findings align with some theoretical works developed by philosophers who promote a pluralist view of representational vehicles, stating that cognitive processes involve representations with different formats. However, the inferential relations between maps and other representational formats have not been sufficiently explored. Thus, this paper is focused on the inferential relations between cartographic and linguistic representations. To that effect, I develop a view of predication extensible to maps. Then, I analyze a case of heterogeneous inference with ordinary maps and sentences that provides some cues to bridge the gap between cartographic and linguistic thought.