Meaning and Mental Representation by Robert Cummins

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.

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
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