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Representation in mind : new approaches to mental representation / edited by Hugh Clapin, Phillip Staines, Peter Slezak.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Perspectives on cognitive science.
- Perspectives on cognitive science
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mental representation--Congresses.
- Mental representation.
- Perception.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (271 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'Representation in Mind' is the first book in the new series 'Perspectives on Cognitive Science' and includes well known contributors in the areas of philosophy of mind, psychology and cognitive science.The papers in this volume offer new ideas, fresh approaches and new criticisms of old ideas. The papers deal in new ways with fundamental questions concerning the problem of mental representation that one contributor, Robert Cummins, has described as ""THE problem in philosophy of mind for some time now"". The editors' introductory overview considers the problem for which mental represe
- Contents:
- Front Cover; REPRESENTATION IN MIND: NEW APPROACHES TO MENTAL REPRESENTATION; Copyright Page; Contents; Volume Editors; Contributors; Editors' Note; Introduction: Issues and Overview; Chapter 1. Notes Toward a Structuralist Theory of Mental Representation; Chapter 2. Representation and Indication; Chapter 3. Representation and the Meaning of Life; Chapter 4. The Dynamic Emergence of Representation; Chapter 5. New Norms for Teleosemantics; Chapter 6. Representation and Experience; Chapter 7. Phenomenal Qualities and Intermodal Perception; Chapter 8. On Folk Psychology and Mental Representation
- Chapter 9. The World Gone Wrong? Images, Illusions, Mistakes and MisrepresentationsChapter 10. Representation, Reduction, and Interdisciplinarity in the Sciences of Memory; Chapter 11. Kant on Constructing Causal Representations; Author Index; Subject Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-04619-1
- 9786611046194
- 0-08-054052-X
- OCLC:
- 441799233
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