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6LIn Samuel Guttenplan (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind, Blackwell. 2017.The Representational Theory of the Mind arises with the recognition that thoughts have contents carried by mental representations. For Abelard to think, for example, that Pegasus is winged is for Abelard to be related to a MENTAL REPRESENTATION whose content is that Pegasus is winged. Now, there are different kinds of representations: pictures, maps, models, and words ‐ to name only some. Exactly what sort of REPRESENTATION is mental representation? (see imagery; connectionism.) Sententialism di…Read more
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University of ArizonaProfessor
Polo Village, Arizona, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics of Mind |
Philosophy of Consciousness |
Intentionality |
Perception |
Mental States and Processes |