Meaning and mental representation / Robert Cummins.
1989
B105.R4 C86 1989
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Title
Meaning and mental representation / Robert Cummins.
Author
Cummins, Robert, 1944-
ISBN
0262530961
9780262530965
9780262271028
0262271028
0262031396
9780262031394
9780262530965
9780262271028
0262271028
0262031396
9780262031394
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1989.
Copyright
©1989
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 180 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
B105.R4 C86 1989
Dewey Decimal Classification
153
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.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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