What Are Mental Representations?

Herausgeber: Smortchkova, Joulia; Schlicht, Tobias; Dol&

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Produktbeschreibung

Mental representations are ubiquitous in cognitive science, and are used to account for many cognitive capacities, from perception to decision making. Yet we lack a clear understanding of what they are. This collection assembles essays by leading philosophers, each trying to provide answers to the puzzles posed by mental representation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780190686673
• ISBN-10: 0190686677
• Artikelnr.: 60606041

Autorenporträt

Joulia Smortchkova is a philosopher of cognitive science, working at the University of Oxford as a postdoctoral fellow. She completed her PhD at the Jean Nicod Institute with a thesis on the social contents of perception. She works on social cognition, metacognition, mental representations, types of explanation and natural kinds in psychology. Krzysztof Dö¿ga is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, where he previously completed his PhD under the supervision of Tobias Schlicht and Daniel Dennett. His research interests cluster around topics such as consciousness, mental representation, computational explanation, and models of explanation more generally. Tobias Schlicht is Professor of Philosophy at the Ruhr-Universit¿ Bochum with an interdisciplinary interest in consciousness and cognition. He wrote two books on the mind-body problem and social cognition and published numerous papers on consciousness, cognition and the foundations of cognitive science.