Meaning and Mental Representation by Robert Cummins
In this provocative study, Robert Cummins takes on philosophers, both old and new, who pursue the question of mental representation as an abstraction, apart from the constraints of any particular theory or framework. Cummins asserts that mental representation is, in fact, a problem in the philosophy of science, a theoretical assumption that serves different explanatory roles within the different contexts of commonsense or folk psychology, orthodox computation, connectionism, or neuroscience.Cummins looks at existing and traditional accounts by Locke, Fodor, Dretske, Millikan, and others of the nature of mental representation and evaluates these accounts within the context of orthodox computational theories of cognition. He proposes that popular accounts of mental representation are inconsistent with the empirical assumptions of these models, which require an account of representation like that involved in mathematical modeling. In the final chapter he considers how mental representation might look in a connectionist context.
A Bradford Book.
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Beginning to Read
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Being-in-the-World
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Advice for a Young Investigator
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The Modularity of Mind
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Computational Explorations in Cognitive Neuroscience
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Being There
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Neurophilosophy
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The Nature of Consciousness
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Behavioral Endocrinology
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The Intentional Stance
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The Computational Beauty of Nature
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Social Cognition
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Conceptual Spaces
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Explaining Consciousness
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Explaining Behavior
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Brain-Wise
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Working Minds
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Dynamics in Action
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Vision Science
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An Introduction to the Event-Related Potential Technique
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The Man Who Tasted Shapes
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The Science of the Mind
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The Origins of Music
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The Rational Imagination
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The Mathematics of Marriage
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Minimal Rationality
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Emergent Computation
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Language in Mind
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The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS)
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Brain and Culture
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The Psychology of Art and the Evolution of the Conscious Brain
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Subjectivity and Selfhood
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Music and Memory
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Metacognition
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Moral Psychology
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Mind Design
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Enaction
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The Natural and the Normative
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Modularity in Knowledge Representation and Natural-Language Understanding
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Information in the Brain
Cummins, Robert: - Robert Cummins, J.D. is an Instructor of Legal Studies at Southern College in Orlando, FL. He is also the Director of Job Placement and Director of Public Relations. Prior to this position, Mr. Cummins has over twenty years of legal practice in the matters involving civil litigation in the areas of commercial law and personal injury.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780262530965 |
| ISBN 10 | 0262530961 |
| Title | Meaning and Mental Representation |
| Author | Robert Cummins |
| Series | A Bradford Book |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | MIT Press Ltd |
| Year published | 1991-02-05 |
| Number of pages | 196 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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