ABSTRACT
In Chapter 8, Mazviita Chirimuuta introduces a dichotomy of research programs on the motor cortex of the brain, between what she calls the “intentional perspective” and the “dynamical perspective.” In questioning the relation between these perspectives, which are taken by practitioners to be in conflict, she applies Massimi’s accounts of perspectival truth to see if an integrated pluralism of perspectives might be available. The standard interpretations of these perspectives leads directly to a clash between them, from which only an instrumentalist (or better, a Kantian kind of) pluralism is left possible. Accepting the complexity of the brain and other entities in the world, Chirimuuta favors the pluralist response to the multiple perspectives, a necessary feature to understand this complexity.
