Meaning and Mental Representation
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- Paperback
196 pages
- Release Date
5 February 1991
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262530965 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262530961 |
| Author: | Robert Cummins |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 196 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 5 February 1991 |
| Weight: | 249g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 133mm x 13mm |
| Series: | A Bradford Book |
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Critics Review
“Cummins addresses problems facing naturalistic theories of representation in cognitive systems. After providing a sophisticated survey of the strengths and defects of traditional and recent proposals, he develops his own ‘interpretational’ approach in some detail. Given the unusual clarity and concision with which he writes, there is no question that the book will be tremendously useful to any student of cognitive science or philosophy of language and mind.”–Georges Rey, University of Maryland
“Cummins has written an immensely useful book. Although this is an area with a complex and confusing literature, Cummins manages to keep things short, simple and clear… Those who want to become informed about aboutness will not do better than start here.”–David Papineau, Times Higher Education Supplement
& quot; Cummins has written an immensely useful book. Although this is an area with a complex and confusing literature, Cummins manages to keep things short, simple and clear… Those who want to become informed about aboutness will not do better than start here.& quot; – David Papineau, Times Higher Education Supplement
” Cummins has written an immensely useful book. Although this is an area with a complex and confusing literature, Cummins manages to keep things short, simple and clear… Those who want to become informed about aboutness will not do better than start here.” – David Papineau, Times Higher Education Supplement
– David Papineau, Times Higher Education Supplement
About The Author
Robert Cummins
Robert Cummins is Professor of Philosophy at University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign.
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