Table Of ContentWhat Are Mental Representations?
PHILOSOPHY OF MIND SERIES
series editor: David J. Chalmers, New York University
The Conscious Brain The Contents of Visual Experience
Jesse Prinz Susanna Siegel
Simulating Minds Consciousness and the Prospects
The Philosophy, Psychology, and of Physicalism
Neuroscience of Mindreading Derk Pereboom
Alvin I. Goldman
Consciousness and Fundamental Reality
Supersizing the Mind Philip Goff
Embodiment, Action, and
The Phenomenal Basis of Intentionality
Cognitive Extension
Angela Mendelovici
Andy Clark
Seeing and Saying
Perception, Hallucination, and Illusion
The Language of Perception and the
William Fish
Representational View of Experience
Phenomenal Concepts and Berit Brogaard
Phenomenal Knowledge
Perceptual Learning
New Essays on Consciousness and
The Flexibility of the Senses
Physicalism
Kevin Connolly
Torin Alter and Sven Walter
Combining Minds
Phenomenal Intentionality
How to Think About
George Graham, John Tienson and
Composite Subjectivity
Terry Horgan
Luke Roelofs
The Character of Consciousness
The Epistemic Role of Consciousness
David J. Chalmers
Declan Smithies
The Senses
The Epistemology of Non- Visual
Classic and Contemporary
Perception
Philosophical Perspectives
Berit Brogaard and
Fiona Macpherson
Dimitria Electra Gatzia
Attention Is Cognitive Unison
What Are Mental Representations?
An Essay in Philosophical Psychology
Joulia Smortchkova, Krzysztof Dołęga,
Christopher Mole
and Tobias Schlicht
What Are Mental
Representations?
Edited by
JOULIA SMORTCHKOVA, KRZYSZTOF DOŁĘGA,
AND TOBIAS SCHLICHT
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Names: Smortchkova, Joulia, 1985– editor. |
Dołęga, Krzysztof, editor. | Schlicht, Tobias, editor.
Title: What are mental representations? /
edited by Joulia Smortchkova, Krzysztof Dołęga, and Tobias Schlicht.
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Oxford University Press, 2020. |
Series: Philosophy of mind series |
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Contents
Preface vii
Contributors ix
Introduction 1
Joulia Smortchkova, Krzysztof Dołęga, and Tobias Schlicht
1. A Deflationary Account of Mental Representation 26
Frances Egan
2. Defending Representation Realism 54
William Ramsey
3. Deflating Deflationism about Mental Representation 79
Daniel D. Hutto and Erik Myin
4. Representing as Coordinating with Absence 101
Nico Orlandi
5. Reifying Representations 135
Michael Rescorla
6. Situated Mental Representations: Why We Need Mental
Representations and How We Should Understand Them 178
Albert Newen and Gottfried Vosgerau
7. Representational Kinds 213
Joulia Smortchkova and Michael Murez
8. Functionalist Interrelations among Human Psychological States
Inter Se, Ditto for Martians 242
Nicholas Shea
9. Nonnatural Mental Representation 254
Gualtiero Piccinini
10. Error Detection and Representational Mechanisms 287
Krystyna Bielecka and Marcin Miłkowski
Index 319
Preface
This volume originates from the conference “Mental Representations: The
Foundations of Cognitive Science?,” held at Ruhr-U niversität Bochum
(Germany) in September 2015 and organized by Krzysztof Dołęga, Tobias
Schlicht, and Joulia Smortchkova. We’re thankful to Joe Dewhurst and Karina
Vold for valuable feedback on the introduction and to Andreea Potinteu and
Paola Gega for their contribution in the production of the index. We wish to
thank all the authors for their effort and patience during the development of
this volume. We also would like to thank the reviewers who took their time
and energy to make helpful and constructive suggestions for sharpening and
clarifying the ideas presented and for improving the chapters. Last but not
least, we are grateful to Oxford University Press, represented by Peter Ohlin,
for hosting this collection, and to David Chalmers for including this collec-
tion in his series and for his support.
Krystyna Bielecka,
Institute of Philosophy,
University of Białystok
Contributors
Krystyna Bielecka, Institute of Philosophy, University of Białystok
Krzysztof Dołęga, Institute of Philosophy II, Ruhr-U niversität Bochum
Frances Egan, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University
Daniel D. Hutto, Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, School of Liberal Arts,
University of Wollongong
Marcin Miłkowski, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of
Sciences
Michael Murez, Centre Atlantique de Philosophie, University of Nantes
Erik Myin, Department of Philosophy, University of Antwerp
Albert Newen, Institute of Philosophy II, Ruhr-U niversität Bochum
Nico Orlandi, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Santa Cruz
Gualtiero Piccinini, Department of Philosophy and Center for Neurodynamics,
University of Missouri, St. Louis
William Ramsey, Department of Philosophy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Michael Rescorla, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles
Tobias Schlicht, Institute of Philosophy II, Ruhr-U niversität Bochum
Nicholas Shea, Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of
London and Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford
Joulia Smortchkova, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford
Gottfried Vosgerau, Department of Philosophy, Heinrich- Heine- University
Düsseldorf
