How can we think about things in the outside world? There is still no widely accepted theory of how mental representations get their meaning. In light of pioneering research, Nicholas Shea develops a naturalistic account of the nature of mental representation with a firm focus on the subpersonal representations that pervade the cognitive sciences.
How can we think about things in the outside world? There is still no widely accepted theory of how mental representations get their meaning. In light of pioneering research, Nicholas Shea develops a naturalistic account of the nature of mental representation with a firm focus on the subpersonal representations that pervade the cognitive sciences.
Nicholas Shea is Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, University of London and an associate member of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. He is an interdisciplinary philosopher of mind, and of psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and cognitive science. He went into philosophy after a brief career as an intellectual property barrister, following a degree in mathematics at Oxford. He completed his MA at Birkbeck and PhD at King's College London and worked as a postdoctoral then senior research fellow in Oxford before returning to London, firstly at King's and then at the Institute of Philosophy. As well as philosophical work on mental representation, inheritance systems, consciousness, and the metaphysics of mind, he has published in scientific journals in collaboration with psychologists, cognitive neuroscientists and biologists.
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Part I 1: Introduction 2: Framework Part II 3: Functions for Representation 4: Correlational Information 5: Structural Correspondence Part III 6: Standard Objections 7: Descriptive and Directive Representation 8: How Content Explains Paragraph-by-Paragraph Summary
Part I 1: Introduction 2: Framework Part II 3: Functions for Representation 4: Correlational Information 5: Structural Correspondence Part III 6: Standard Objections 7: Descriptive and Directive Representation 8: How Content Explains Paragraph-by-Paragraph Summary
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