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A New Perspective on Representational Problems
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Eliasmith, Chris | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-12-06T02:47:40Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2010-12-06T02:47:40Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2005 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Cognitive Science, Vol.6 No.2, pp. 97-123 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1598-2327 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10371/70729 | - |
dc.description.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. | - |
dc.language.iso | en | - |
dc.publisher | Institute for Cognitive Science, Seoul National University | - |
dc.subject | representation | - |
dc.subject | meaning | - |
dc.subject | philosophy of neuroscience | - |
dc.subject | neurophilosophy | - |
dc.subject | neurosemantics | - |
dc.subject | psychosemantics | - |
dc.subject | philosophy of mind | - |
dc.subject | neural representation | - |
dc.title | A New Perspective on Representational Problems | - |
dc.type | SNU Journal | - |
dc.citation.journaltitle | Journal of cognitive science | - |
dc.citation.endpage | 123 | - |
dc.citation.number | 2 | - |
dc.citation.pages | 97-123 | - |
dc.citation.startpage | 97 | - |
dc.citation.volume | 6 | - |
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