Deflating Mental Representation
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- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2025
Summary
A novel account of the explanatory role of representation in both the cognitive sciences and commonsense practice that preserves the virtues without the defects of the prevailing two views about mental representation.
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 em…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262551601 |
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| 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: | 133mm x 203mm |
| Series: | Jean Nicod Lectures |
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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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