Representation in Cognitive Science
"Our thoughts are meaningful. We think about things in the outside world; how can that be so? This is one of the deepest questions in contemporary philosophy. Ever since the 'cognitive revolution', states with meaning-mental representations-have been the key explanatory construct of the cognitive sc...
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| description | "Our thoughts are meaningful. We think about things in the outside world; how can that be so? This is one of the deepest questions in contemporary philosophy. Ever since the 'cognitive revolution', states with meaning-mental representations-have been the key explanatory construct of the cognitive sciences. But there is still no widely accepted theory of how mental representations get their meaning. Powerful new methods in cognitive neuroscience can now reveal information processing in the brain in unprecedented detail. They show how the brain performs complex calculations on neural representations.
Drawing on this cutting-edge research, Nicholas Shea uses a series of case studies from the cognitive sciences to develop a naturalistic account of the nature of mental representation. His approach is distinctive in focusing firmly on the 'subpersonal' representations that pervade so much of cognitive science. The diversity and depth of the case studies, illustrated by numerous figures, make this book unlike any previous treatment. It is important reading for philosophers of psychology and philosophers of mind, and of considerable interest to researchers throughout the cognitive sciences." |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-392152025-05-09T11:51:40Z Representation in Cognitive Science Shea, Nicholas contemporary philosophy cognitive sciences mental representations cognitive neuroscience "Our thoughts are meaningful. We think about things in the outside world; how can that be so? This is one of the deepest questions in contemporary philosophy. Ever since the 'cognitive revolution', states with meaning-mental representations-have been the key explanatory construct of the cognitive sciences. But there is still no widely accepted theory of how mental representations get their meaning. Powerful new methods in cognitive neuroscience can now reveal information processing in the brain in unprecedented detail. They show how the brain performs complex calculations on neural representations. Drawing on this cutting-edge research, Nicholas Shea uses a series of case studies from the cognitive sciences to develop a naturalistic account of the nature of mental representation. His approach is distinctive in focusing firmly on the 'subpersonal' representations that pervade so much of cognitive science. The diversity and depth of the case studies, illustrated by numerous figures, make this book unlike any previous treatment. It is important reading for philosophers of psychology and philosophers of mind, and of considerable interest to researchers throughout the cognitive sciences." 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2018-10-03 23:55 2019-11-26 14:58:33 2020-04-01T12:21:19Z 2018 book 1001607 OCN: 1053888145 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/28350 9780198812883 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/39215 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/28350/1/9780198812883.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/28350/1/9780198812883.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/28350/1/9780198812883.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/28350/1/9780198812883.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/28350/1/9780198812883.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/28350/1/9780198812883.pdf Oxford University Press 10.1093/oso/9780198812883.001.0001 10.1093/oso/9780198812883.001.0001 db4e319f-ca9f-449a-bcf2-37d7c6f885b1 H2020 European Research Council 178e65b9-dd53-4922-b85c-0aaa74fce079 9780198812883 European Research Council (ERC) EU collection 304 Oxford, UK 681422 open access |
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