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9780190686673

What are Mental Representations?

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  • ISBN13:

    9780190686673

  • ISBN10:

    0190686677

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2020-10-12
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Author Biography


Joulia Smortchkova is a philosopher of cognitive science, working at the University of Oxford as a postdoctoral fellow. She completed her PhD at the Jean Nicod Institute with a thesis on the social contents of perception. She works on social cognition, metacognition, mental representations, types of explanation and natural kinds in psychology.

Krzysztof Dolega is currently a postdoctoral researcher the Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum, where he
previously completed his PhD under the supervision of Tobias Schlicht and Daniel Dennett. His
research interests cluster around topics such as consciousness, mental representation,
computational explanation, and models of explanation more generally.

Tobias Schlicht is Professor of Philosophy at Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany) with an interdisciplinary interest in consciousness and cognition. He wrote two books on the mind-body problem and social cognition and published numerous papers on consciousness, cognition and the foundations of cognitive science.

Table of Contents


Preface

1. Introduction
Joulia Smortchkova, Krzysztof Dolega, and Tobias Schlicht

2. A Deflationary Account of Mental Representation
Frances Egan

3. Defending Representation Realism
William Ramsey

4. Deflating Deflationism about Mental Representation
Dan Hutto & Erik Myin

5. Representing as Coordinating with Absence
Nico Orlandi

6. Reifying Representations
Michael Rescorla

7. Situated Mental Representations: Why we need mental representations and how we should understand them
Albert Newen and Gottfried Vosgerau

8. Representational Kinds
Joulia Smortchkova and Michael Murez

9. Functionalist Interrelations Amongst Human Psychological States Inter Se, ditto for Martians
Nicholas Shea

10. Nonnatural Mental Representation
Gualtiero Piccinini

11. Error Detection and Representational Mechanisms
Krystyna Bielecka and Marcin Milkowski

Index

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