Deflating Mental Representation by Frances Egan - ISBN: 9780262551601
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Mental representation: a pragmatic tool, not objective truth or useful fiction.

Deflating Mental Representation

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    192 pages

  • Release Date

    15 April 2025

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Summary

Philosophers of mind tend to hold one of two broad views about mental representation: they are either robustly realist about mental representations, taking them to have determinate, objective content independent of attributors’ explanatory interests and goals, or they embrace some form of anti-realism, holding that mental representations are at best useful fictions. Neither view is satisfactory.

In Deflating Mental Representation, Frances Egan develops and defends a distinctive third …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262551601
ISBN-10:0262551608
Author:Frances Egan
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:192
Release Date:15 April 2025
Weight:369g
Dimensions:203mm x 133mm
Series:Jean Nicod Lectures
About The Author

Frances Egan

Frances Egan is Distinguished Professor Emerita at Rutgers University. She has held research fellowships at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Bielefeld and the Center for Mind and Cognition at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany and the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She was awarded the Jean Nicod Prize by the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 2021.

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