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A New Perspective on Representational Problems
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- Authors
- Issue Date
- 2005
- Citation
- Journal of Cognitive Science, Vol.6 No.2, pp. 97-123
- Keywords
- representation ; meaning ; philosophy of neuroscience ; neurophilosophy ; neurosemantics ; psychosemantics ; philosophy of mind ; neural representation
- Abstract
- I argue that current flaws in the methodology of contemporary
cognitive science, especially neuroscience, have adversely affected
philosophical theorizing about the nature of representation. To highlight
these flaws, I introduce a distinction between adopting the animals
perspective and the observers perspective when characterizing
representation. I provide a discussion of each and show how the former
has been unduly overlooked by cognitive scientists, including
neuroscientists and philosophers. I also provide a specific neuroscientific
example that demonstrates how adopting the animals perspective can
simplify the characterization of the representation relation. Finally, I
suggest that taking this perspective seriously supports in a specific thesis
regarding content determination: the statistical dependence hypothesis.
- ISSN
- 1598-2327
- Language
- English
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