Representation in Mind (eBook)

New Approaches to Mental Representation

Hugh Clapin, Peter Slezak, Phillip Staines (Herausgeber)

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2004 | 1. Auflage
270 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-054052-8 (ISBN)

Infos

'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 representation has been seen as an answer, sketching an influential framework, outlining some of the issues addressed and then providing an overview of the papers.

Issues include: the relation between mental representation and public, non-mental representation, misrepresentation, the role of mental representations in intelligent action, the relation between representation and consciousness, the relation between folk psychology and explanations invoking mental representations

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'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 "e;THE problem in philosophy of mind for some time now"e;. The editors' introductory overview considers the problem for which mental representation has been seen as an answer, sketching an influential framework, outlining some of the issues addressed and then providing an overview of the papers. Issues include: the relation between mental representation and public, non-mental representation; misrepresentation; the role of mental representations in intelligent action; the relation between representation and consciousness; the relation between folk psychology and explanations invoking mental representations

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
REPRESENTATION IN MIND: NEW APPROACHES TO MENTAL REPRESENTATION 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 6
Volume Editors 8
Contributors 10
Editors' Note 6
Introduction: Issues and Overview 12
Chapter 1. Notes Toward a Structuralist Theory of Mental Representation 28
Chapter 2. Representation and Indication 48
Chapter 3. Representation and the Meaning of Life 68
Chapter 4. The Dynamic Emergence of Representation 98
Chapter 5. New Norms for Teleosemantics 118
Chapter 6. Representation and Experience 134
Chapter 7. Phenomenal Qualities and Intermodal Perception 152
Chapter 8. On Folk Psychology and Mental Representation 174
Chapter 9. The World Gone Wrong? Images, Illusions, Mistakes and Misrepresentations 190
Chapter 10. Representation, Reduction, and Interdisciplinarity in the Sciences of Memory 214
Chapter 11. Kant on Constructing Causal Representations 244
Author Index 264
Subject Index 270

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.6.2004
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Test in der Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• ISBN-10: 0-08-054052-X / 008054052X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-054052-8 / 9780080540528