What are mental representations? / edited by Joulia Smortchkova, Krzysztof Dołęga, and Tobias Schlicht.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smortchkova, Joulia, 1985- editor.

Dołęga, Krzysztof, editor.

Schlicht, Tobias, editor.

Series:

Philosophy of mind series.

Oxford scholarship online.

Philosophy of mind series

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Representation (Philosophy).

Mental representation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Mental representations are ubiquitous in cognitive science, and are used to account for many cognitive capacities, from perception to decision making. Yet we lack a clear understanding of what they are. This collection assembles essays by leading philosophers, each trying to provide answers to the puzzles posed by mental representation.

Contents:

Introduction / Joulia Smortchkova, Krzysztof Dołęga, and Tobias Schlicht

A deflationary account of mental representation / Frances Egan

Defending representation realism / William Ramsey

Deflating deflationism about mental representation / Dan Hutto, Erik Myin

Representing as coordinating with absence / Nico Orlandi

Reifying representations / Michael Rescorla

Situated mental representations : why we need mental representations and how we should understand them / Albert Newen, Gottfried Vosgerau

Representational Kinds / Joulia Smortchkova, Michael Murez

Functionalist interrelations amongst human psychological states Inter Se, ditto for Martians / Nicholas Shea

Nonnatural mental representation / Gualtiero Piccinini

Error detection and representational mechanisms / Krystyna Bielecka, Marcin Miłkowski.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 24, 2021).

ISBN:

0-19-068669-3

0-19-068670-7

0-19-068668-5