Representation

Edited by Zoe Drayson (University of California, Davis)
About this topic
Summary In representation, one thing stands in for, designates, or is about something else. The relation between the mind and the world has long been characterised as representational: Aristotle, the Scholastics, Descartes, and Locke held some form of representational theory of mind, and Brentano’s concept of intentionality is often understood in representational terms. Contemporary naturalistic philosophy of mind has focused on explaining how the semantic property of representing something can play a causal role in producing behaviour. This project was aided by the development of computational theory in the twentieth century, which showed how physically-implemented states could participate in causal processes preserving the semantic interpretation of those states. These ‘vehicles’ of representation are the theoretical posits of cognitive science. Key debates concern what sorts of things can be representations (e.g. symbols, activation patterns), the format in which representations bear their contents (e.g. linguistically, pictorially), and the legitimacy of representation-talk beyond the realm of traditional mental states.
Key works The first attempt at a theory of representation is probably Peirce’s theory of signs (Peirce 1940). Contemporary approaches to representation such as Fodor 1975, Millikan 1984, and Dretske 1988 tend to incorporate both an account of representation and a theory of how representations acquire their contents. Not all theories of representation aim to underwrite the propositional attitudes of folk-psychology: Cummins 1989 focuses on representation as an explanatory posit in computational cognitive science; similar approaches are the subject of a dialogue between Daniel Dennett, Andy Clark and others in Clapin 2002. Haugeland 1998 looks at the distinctions between several ‘representational genera’ such as iconic versus linguistic, discrete versus distributed. Egan 1995 explores the relation between representation, computation, and cognition, and Ramsey 2007 questions the role of representation in current theories of cognition.
Introductions Crane 1995 is an accessible introduction to mental representation. Stich & Warfield 1994 is a collection of articles on the topic including the introductory essay Stich 1992. Pitt 2020 is an encyclopedia entry on mental representation, and Ryder 2009 is an overview of representation in the philosophy of psychology.
Related

Contents
1027 found
Order:
1 — 50 / 1027
Material to categorize
  1. Constructing Embodied Emotion with Language: Moebius Syndrome and Face-Based Emotion Recognition Revisited.Hunter Gentry - forthcoming - Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
    Some embodied theories of concepts state that concepts are represented in a sensorimotor manner, typically via simulation in sensorimotor cortices. Fred Adams (2010) has advanced an empirical argument against embodied concepts reasoning as follows. If concepts are embodied, then patients with certain sensorimotor impairments should perform worse on categorization tasks involving those concepts. Adams cites a study with Moebius Syndrome patients that shows typical categorization performance in face-based emotion recognition. Adams concludes that their typical performance shows that embodiment is false. (...)
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  2. Топология субъектности.Andrej Poleev - 2023 - Enzymes 21.
    Техника представления информации о внешнем и внутреннем мире постоянно развивается, и сейчас она достигла уровня отображения реальности в многообразных её проявлениях и измерениях, прежде недоступных человеческому восприятию. Язык, текст, фотография, звукозапись, а теперь ещё и техника искусственного интеллекта для моделирования человеческой субъектности и её описания в доступной для человеческого понимания форме, стали эпохальными событиями в теории информации. Однако несмотря на то, что на данном этапе её развития она позволяет оперировать с непрерывно возрастающими объёмами информации, это не приближает её теоретиков к (...)
    Remove from this list   Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  3. The Development of Descartes’ Idea of Representation by Correspondence.Hanoch Ben-Yami - 2023 - In Andrea Strazzoni & Marco Sgarbi (eds.), Reading Descartes: Consciousness, Body, and Reasoning. Florence: Firenze University Press. pp. 41-57.
    Descartes was the first to hold that, when we perceive, the representation need not resemble what it represents but should correspond to it. Descartes developed this ground-breaking, influential conception in his work on analytic geometry and then transferred it to his theory of perception. I trace the development of the idea in Descartes’ early mathematical works; his articulation of it in Rules for the Direction of the Mind; his first suggestions there to apply this kind of representation-by-correspondence in the scientific (...)
    Remove from this list   Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  4. Solstice-Equinox.Ilexa Yardley - 2023 - Https://Medium.Com/the-Circular-Theory/.
    The explanation for everything in Nature, everything in human history, future, and-or, past, is the conservation of a circle, proven by, the circular-linear relationship between, the solstice and the equinox.
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  5. Mental content.Peter Schulte - 2023 - Cambridge University Press.
    This Element provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary theories of mental content. After clarifying central concepts and identifying the questions that dominate the current debate, it presents and discusses the principal accounts of the nature of mental content (or mental representation), which include causal, informational, teleological and structuralist approaches, alongside the phenomenal intentionality approach and the intentional stance theory. Additionally, it examines anti-representationalist accounts which question either the existence or the explanatory relevance of mental content. Finally, the Element concludes by (...)
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  6. L'excès du représentatif.Jean-Michel Le Lannou - 2015 - Paris: Hermann.
    Pourquoi identifions-nous spontanement toute oeuvre d'art a une representation? D'ou provient cette assimilation? De la Poetique. Pourquoi cependant continuons-nous a trouver dans le texte d'Aristote la verite de toute oeuvre? Tout art est-il representatif? De fait, dans sa production comme dans sa reflexion, l'Art nous impose de renoncer au desir aristotelicien. Se delivrant de cette longue fascination, la philosophie doit dorenavant elaborer une esthetique des arts reels. L'Art n'est pensable dans sa specificite (son exces de l'eidos) qu'a la condition de (...)
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  7. Le monde en images: voir, représenter, savoir, de Descartes à Leibniz.Frédérique Aït-Touati - 2015 - Paris: Classiques Garnier. Edited by Stephen Gaukroger.
    Dans les débats classiques des xvie et xviie siècles, la représentation est considérée avant tout comme une question rhétorique et psychologique, mais à la fin du xviie siècle, elle devient une question épistémologique. Cet ouvrage explore le contexte de cette transformation et ses sources.
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  8. Hacer mundo(s) con representaciones.Andoni Ibarra & Ekai Txapartegi (eds.) - 2016 - [País Vasco]: Universidad del País Vasco = Euskal Herria Unibertsitatea.
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  9. Radical parochialism about reference.Will Gamester & J. Robert G. Williams - 2023 - Noûs 57 (3):600-617.
    We can use radically different reference‐schemes to generate the same truth‐conditions for the sentences of a language. In this paper, we do three things. (1) Distinguish two arguments that deploy this observation to derive different conclusions. The first argues that reference is radically indeterminate: there is no fact of the matter what ordinary terms refer to. This threat is taken seriously and most contemporary metasemantic theories come with resources intended to rebut it. The second argues for radical parochialism about reference: (...)
    Remove from this list   Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  10. Mihak i chaehyŏn ŭl nonhada =.Chong-Hwan O. (ed.) - 2019 - Sŏul: Sŏul Taehakkyo Ch'ulp'an Munhwawŏn.
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  11. Résistance(s): Liber Amicorum Jean-Émile Charlier.Jean-Émile Charlier, Sarah Croché, Louis Le Hardÿ de Beaulieu, Fabienne Leloup & Frédéric Moens (eds.) - 2022 - [Louvain-La-Neuve]: PUL, Presses Universitaires de Louvain.
    Résistance(s) réunit un ensemble de contributions scientifiques originales émanant de chercheurs en sciences humaines et sociales et consacré à la ou aux résistance(s). La résistance décrit les capacités de refus, d'évitement et d'adaptation développées par les acteurs lorsqu'ils sont confrontés à une imposition externe ou à une injonction institutionnelle. Elle se présente comme une interprétation des refus, des éventuelles ruses voire des conflits ouverts qui s'expriment dans une telle situation ; cette interprétation diffère cependant de sa simple manifestation dans la (...)
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  12. Thought and Talk in a Generous World.Alexander Sandgren - 2022 - Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 9.
    The problem of the many seems to problematize the platitude that we can think about particular things in the world. How is it that, given how very many cat-like candidates there are, we often manage to think and talk about a particular cat? I argue that this challenge stems from an under-examined assumption about the relationship between metaphysics and intentionality. I explore and develop a way of characterizing what it is to think and talk about the world, according to which (...)
    Remove from this list   Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  13. Affect, desire and interpretation.Robert Williams - forthcoming - Philosophical Studies.
    Are interpersonal comparisons of desire possible? Can we give an account of how facts about desires are grounded, that underpins such comparisons? This paper supposes the answer to the first question is yes, and provides an account of the nature of desire that explains how this is so. The account is a modification of the interpretationist metaphysics of representation that the author has recently been developing. The modification is to allow phenomenological affective valence into the “base facts” on which correct (...)
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  14. Les Savoirs dans les pratiques quotidiennes: recherches sur les représentations.Claire Belisle, Bernard Schiele & Smaïl Ait El Hadj (eds.) - 1984 - Paris: Editions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique.
    Remove from this list  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  15. Repräsentation und Modell: Formen der Welterkenntnis: eine Ringvorlesung im Sommersemester 1992.Hans Jörg Sandkühler (ed.) - 1993 - Bremen: Zentrum Philosophische Grundlagen der Wissenschaften.
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  16. Alle origini della rappresentazione.Enrico Aceti - 1997 - Milano: Guerini scientifica.
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  17. The cognitive mechanism between observation and theory: Arepresentation-based approach.Yan Zhou - 2018 - Journal of Human Cognition 2 (2):32-51.
    The thesis of relation between observation and theory is one of the basic important issues in philosophy of science and scientific epistemology. However, the mechanistic processes of theory- ladenness of observation have rarely been discussed. Current research in cognitive science on thought processes provides powerful analytical tools and empirical support for this problem. In the light of the perception-based knowledge representation of Barsolou, this paper attempts to give a representation-based explanation for theory- laden mechanism in virtue of constraints on production (...)
    Remove from this list   Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  18. Rappresentazione e interpretazione del mondo: fenomenologia, ermeneutica, attualismo.Antimo Negri - 2002 - Roma: FERV. Edited by Adele Patriarchi & Roberto Spirito.
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  19. Scorpio in the Twelfth House.Ilexa Yardley - 2020 - Https://Medium.Com/the-Circular-Theory.
    How death and dreams (our supra-conscious ‘reality’) explain(s) ontology and epistemology (object-oriented reality) (physical reality) (relative identity) (relative reality) (consciousness) (everything in philosophy) (physics) (biology).
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  20. Representation in Cognitive Science by Nicholas Shea: Reply by the Author.Nicholas Shea - 2022 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 92:270-273.
    It is a rare privilege to have such eminent and insightful reviewers. Their kind words about the book are much appreciated – perhaps more than they realise. And I'm grateful to all three for having read the book so constructively. Each has given me several things to think about. In the space available here I will focus on the objections that seem most critical. Robert Rupert argues that I rely on an overly narrow understanding of what the cognitive sciences explain (...)
    Remove from this list   Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  21. El esplendor del mundo: ensayo de un pensamiento de resistencia.Vicente Ramos Centeno - 2012 - Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva.
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  22. al-Taghyīr al-āmin: masārāt al-muqāwamah al-silmīyah min al-tadhammur ilá al-thawrah.ʻAmmār ʻAlī Ḥasan - 2012 - al-Qāhirah: Dār al-Shurūq.
    يتحدث هذا الكتاب عن مفهوم المقاومة بمعناه الواسع، فليست المقاومة مرهونة فقط بالعنف والرصاص والدم، ولا محصورة في خوض المعارك وممارسة القتال. فإذا كانت مقاومة المستعمر والمحتل والمغتصب هي الأبرز والأعلى صوتًا، فإن هناك جبهات أخرى تدور عليها المواجهة لا تقل أهمية عن التصدي للمستعمر، وصيانة استقلال الوطن وحريته. وأولى هذه الجبهات، مقاومة الحاكم الجائر لرده عن الظلم والطغيان، ودفعه إلى إقامة العدل الذي هو أساس الملك. وتأخذ هذه المقاومة أشكالًا متعددة عبر التاريخ، منها ما لجأ إلى أقصى درجات العنف (...)
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  23. Filosofía de la resistencia.Irma Becerra - 2012 - Tegucigalpa, Honduras: Baktun Editorial.
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  24. Formas de la resistencia: una mirada desde el psicoanálisis, la poesía, el cine y los habitantes de la calle.A. Correa & Marta Elena (eds.) - 2012 - Medellín, Colombia: Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana.
    Del anormal al sujeto ce la resistencia -- Subjetividad y resistencia -- Vida cotidiana del habitante de calle -- Reflexión sobre el concepto de irrealidad como forma de resistencia y ejercicio de la libertad en la experiencia cinematográfica -- Poesía y resistencia.
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  25. The Euthyphro Challenge in Metasemantics.Bar Luzon - 2024 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 108 (1):217-237.
    This paper argues that functionalist metasemantic views, such as Conceptual Role Semantics and Interpretivism, face a Euthyphro challenge. The challenge, put roughly, is this: functionalist metasemantic views reverse the order of explanation. According to such views, representational mental states have the contents that they do partly because they play certain roles in our mental lives. According to an intuitive picture of the roles that representational mental states play in our mental lives, however, these states play the roles they do partly (...)
    Remove from this list   Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  26. Revisiting the Intentionality All-Stars.Walter Veit - 2022 - Review of Analytic Philosophy 2 (1):31-54.
    Eliminativism is a position most readily associated with the eliminative materialism of the Churchlands, denying that there are such things as propositional states. This position has created much controversy, despite the fact that intentionality has long been seen as perhaps the core problem for naturalistic philosophy. There is a more radical interpretation of eliminativism, however, denying not only mental states, such as beliefs and desires, but also intentionality (i.e., aboutness) on a global level. This position traces its contemporary origin back (...)
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  27. Beyond embodiment : from internal representation of action to symbolic processes.Isabel Barahona da Fonseca, Jose Barahona da Fonseca & Vitor Pereira - 2012 - In Liz Stillwaggon Swan (ed.), Origins of mind. Dordrecht: Springer. pp. 187-199.
    In sensorimotor integration, representation involves an anticipatory model of the action to be performed. This model integrates efferent signals (motor commands), its reafferent consequences (sensory consequences of an organism’s own motor action), and other afferences (sensory signals) originated by stimuli independent of the action performed. Representation, a form of internal modeling, is invoked to explain the fact that behavior oriented to the achievement of future goals is relatively independent from the immediate environment. Internal modeling explains how a cognitive system achieves (...)
    Remove from this list   Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  28. La représentation excessive: Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Pascal.Lucien Vinciguerra - 2013 - Villeneuve d'Ascq, France: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion.
    Comprendre ce que les philosophes du XVIIe siècle entendaient par représentation est essentiel à l'intelligence de leurs conceptions des idées et de la vérité. Ce livre renouvelle notre approche du problème à travers des lectures de Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Pascal, en reliant leurs analyses philosophiques à leurs textes scientifiques. Les figures de la Dioptrique et de la Géométrie éclairent chez Descartes le contenu de l'idée sensible, le rapport du clair et du confus, la nature de la couleur et celle de (...)
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  29. Keeping the world in mind: mental representations and the sciences of the mind.Anne Jaap Jacobson - 2013 - New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.
    Drawing on a wide range of resources, including the history of philosophy, her role as director of a cognitive neuroscience group, and her Wittgensteinian training at Oxford, Jacobson provides fresh views on representation, concepts, perception, action, emotion and belief.
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  30. Rappresentazione e realtà: psicologia fenomenologica dell'immaginario e degli atti rappresentativi.Andrea Zhok - 2014 - Milano: Mimesis.
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  31. Mysticism as revolt: Foucault, Deleuze, and theology beyond representation.Petra Carlsson Redell - 2014 - Aurora, Colorado: Davies Group, Publishers.
  32. Beyond secular order: the representation of being and the representation of the people.John Milbank - 2013 - Hoboken, NY: Wiley.
    Sequence on modern ontology -- From theology to philosophy -- The four pillars of modern philosophy -- Modern philosophy : a theological critique -- Analogy versus univocity -- Identity versus representation -- Intentionality and embodiment -- Intentionality and selfhood -- Reason and the incarnation of the logos -- The passivity of modern reason -- The baroque simulation of cosmic order -- Deconstructed representation and beyond -- Passivity and concursus -- Representation in philosophy -- Actualism versus possibilism -- Influence versus concurrence (...)
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   4 citations  
  33. Penser les représentations.Lucien Ayissi (ed.) - 2014 - Paris: L'Harmattan.
    De quoi peut-il s'agir lorsqu'on entreprend de penser les représentations? Pourquoi leur accorder un intérêt épistémologique aussi important qu'il faille s'y mettre à plusieurs dans le cadre d'un ouvrage collectif? A quoi peut bien se destiner cette synergie? C'est pour pouvoir résoudre le problème de pertinence et de sens que pose la réflexion sur les représentations que des univeristaires camerounais ont accepté de collaborer à cet ouvrage.
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  34. Thaqāfat al-muqāwamah.Nafīsah Duwaydah (ed.) - 2016 - al-Jazāʼir: Manshūrāt al-Jamʻīyah al-Jazāʼirīyah lil-Dirāsāt al-Falsafīyah.
    Arab countries; intellectual life; congresses.
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  35. al-Muqāwamah al-ḥaḍārīyah: dirāsah fī ʻawāmil al-baʻth fī qurūn al-inḥidār.Hānī Maḥmūd - 2017 - [al-Qāhirah]: Dār al-Bashīr lil-Thaqāfah wa-al-ʻUlūm.
    Resistance movements, War ; religious aspects; Islam; history. Islamic civilization; Islam; 20th century.
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  36. Autonomien in Zusammenhängen: Formkombinatorik und die Verzeitlichung des Bildlichen.Cornelia Bohn - 2017 - Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, Brill Deutschland.
    Der Band plädiert für eine Resymmetrisierung des Sprachlichen und des Bildlichen für das Verständnis der Gegenwartsgesellschaft. Bildlichkeit wird als eine vom Wahrnehmungsmodus unterschiedene genuin soziale Sinnform aufgefasst. Wir verlassen uns darauf, dass auch Andere ganz selbstverständlich dargestellte Welt von wahrgenommener Welt unterscheiden. Auf die Darstellungen von Darstellungsformen hat sich moderne Kunst spezialisiert. Am Beispiel der Gegenwartskunst wird die Vermehrung, Kombinatorik und wechselseitige Bezugnahme künstlerischer Formen als Katalysator für innerkünstlerische Transformationen identifizierbar.
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  37. Puissances de l'abstraction: études sur L'excès du représentatif.Alexandre Lissner & Frédéric Berland (eds.) - 2017 - Paris: Hermann.
    L'idealisme radical de Jean-Michel Le Lannou conteste l'identification de la pensee et de la representation. Loin de soumettre a la vacuite et la mort, l'abstraction manifeste ses puissances d'exces. Plus rien ne nous oblige a persister dans notre amour du fini. Pourtant, la philosophie s'est longtemps meprise sur elle-meme. D'ou provient une telle mesentente sur le desir du penser? Montrer comment la pensee a pu ainsi se fourvoyer sur elle-meme doit permettre d'entreprendre sa liberation definitive. Les etudes reunies ici s'attachent (...)
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  38. Non!: de l'esprit de révolte.Vincent Delecroix - 2018 - Paris: Éditions Autrement.
    "Chacun se proclame si facilement héros qu'on serait presque prêt à faire l'éloge du conformisme et de la soumission rien que pour leur dire Non." Jamais dire Non n'aura été aussi à la mode – jamais être anti-conformiste n'aura été aussi répandu. Mais mesure-t-on vraiment l'importance vitale que revêt ce petit mot? Paradoxalement fécond, c'est un mot qui agit plus qu'il ne signifie. Or que se passe-t-il quand je dis Non? Du premier refus de l'enfant à la résistance politique, la (...)
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  39. Personhood and epistemic interactivism in indigenous Esan thought: from theories of representation to an African knowledge system.Sylvester Odia - 2019 - New York: Peter Lang.
    Epistemic interactivism, an aspect of the epistemology of representation, is a cognitive intercourse between the subject and person-object of knowledge that underlies the conception of a person in Esan thought. Traditional theories of representation (especially as presented by Descartes and Locke) separated the subject from the object of knowledge, and classified persons and non-persons as object of knowledge. This separation and classification ignored the cognitive and moral values of persons, disengaged the subject from the world and burden the self with (...)
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  40. Yitsugim: metsiuʼt, ḥiḳui ṿe-dimyon - ʻiyunim biḳortiyim = Representations: reality, imitation and imagination - critical studies.Yair Maimon & Nitza Ben-Dov (eds.) - 2020 - Tel Aviv: Mekhon Mofet.
    Reality imitation and imagination - critical studies.
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  41. Bizarre-privileged items in the universe: the logic of likeness.Paul North - 2021 - New York: Zone Books.
    This book affirms the experience of likeness at the heart of many, if not all, disciplines of knowledge and seeks to formalize that basic experience into a science of its own, "homeotics.".
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  42. Troubles with mathematical contents.Marco Facchin - forthcoming - Philosophical Psychology.
    To account for the explanatory role representations play in cognitive science, Egan’s deflationary account introduces a distinction between cognitive and mathematical contents. According to that account, only the latter are genuine explanatory posits of cognitive-scientific theories, as they represent the arguments and values cognitive devices need to represent to compute. Here, I argue that the deflationary account suffers from two important problems, whose roots trace back to the introduction of mathematical contents. First, I will argue that mathematical contents do not (...)
    Remove from this list   Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  43. Scientific and Aesthetic Understanding: The Case of Musical Exemplification.Ivano Zanzarella - 2021 - Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
    Abstract The Greek composer and architect Iannis Xenakis has shown in Formalized Music (1963) how it is possible to compose or describe music and sound by means of probabilistic laws from mathematics, information theory and statistical mechanics. In his theory, scientific concepts and properties such as entropy take on a musical meaning in that they become also properties structurally instantiable by music. Philosophically speaking, this raises many important questions about the relation between science and the arts. One of these questions (...)
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  44. The Mind’s Presence to Itself: In Search of Non‐intentional Awareness.Jonathan Mitchell - 2021 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 104 (3):659-675.
    According to some philosophers, the mind enjoys a form of presence to itself. That is to say, in addition to being aware of whatever objects it is aware of, it is also (co-presently) aware of itself. This paper explores the proposal that we should think about this kind of experiential-presence in terms of a form of non-intentional awareness. Various candidates for the relevant form of awareness, as constituting supposed non-intentional experiential-presence, are considered and are shown to encounter significant problems. The (...)
    Remove from this list   Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  45. Conceptos, contenido y cognición: una propuesta comunitarista para la determinación del contenido.Erika Torres - 2020 - Dissertation, National Autonomous University of Mexico
    La tesis aborda uno de los temas centrales en la filosofía de la mente y las ciencias cognitivas: los conceptos como unidades básicas de la cognición humana. La tesis central que se defiende es que el contenido de los conceptos es determinado parcialmente por las comunidades a las que pertenecen los sujetos cognitivos, en la medida en la que dichas comunidades guían y constriñen las interacciones entre el sistema cognitivo conceptual y el entorno del que forma conceptos. La novedad de (...)
    Remove from this list   Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  46. The Information Economy.Ilexa Yardley - 2022 - Https://Medium.Com/the-Circular-Theory.
    Everything in a human 'universe' (a human mind) depends upon finance. This is because finance is the tokenization, and, therefore, the conservation (the representation) of an uber-basic circle. One zero and (or) one one produces an unlimited number (variation) (combination) of zeroes and ones. Which is exactly what is happening in all disciplines (philosophy, physics, psychology, biology, technology, media).
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  47. Meanings of Pain, Volume 3: Vulnerable or Special Groups of People.Simon Van Rysewyk - 2022 - Springer.
    - First book to describe what pain means in vulnerable or special groups of people - Clinical applications described in each chapter - Provides insight into the nature of pain experience across the lifespan -/- This book, the third and final volume in the Meaning of Pain series, describes what pain means to people with pain in “vulnerable” groups, and how meaning changes pain – and them – over time. -/- Immediate pain warns of harm or injury to the person (...)
    Remove from this list   Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  48. Why Mathematics Can Never Explain Reality.Ilexa Yardley - 2021 - Https://Medium.Com/the-Circular-Theory/.
    Why Mathematics Can Never ‘Explain’ Reality: Well, for one thing, as everybody knows, there is no ‘Reality.’ All symbolic systems require the conservation of a circle, which is the core, and, thus, the only, dynamic in Nature. It is not possible to have X without Y (X without one other X) because it is not possible to have a circumference (a zero) without a diameter (a one). So, this proves the token for 'tokenization' that is necessary for general relativity (more (...)
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  49. That ‐clauses: Some bad news for relationalism about the attitudes.Robert J. Matthews - 2020 - Mind and Language 37 (3):414-431.
    Propositional relationalists about the attitudes claim to find support for their view in what they assume to be the dyadic relational logical form of the predicates by which we canonically attribute propositional attitudes. In this paper I argue that the considerations that they adduce in support of this assumption, specifically for the assumption that the that-clauses that figure in these predicates are singular terms, are suspect on linguistic grounds. Propositional relationalism may nonetheless be true, but the logical form of attitude (...)
    Remove from this list   Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  50. General Relativity.Ilexa Yardley - 2022 - Intelligent Design Center.
    Space joins (and separates) any X and-or Y. X and-or Y is, necessarily, 0 and-or 1. 0 and-or 1 is, necessarily, circumference and-or diameter. Explaining (what humans think of as) gravity (general relativity) (the 'self' in all systems). Thereby, and, therein, explaining the relationship between mind and matter. Integrating philosophy and physics (abstract and concrete reality) (where you need both in order to have either). Thereby, and, therein, explaining everything in psychology (a completely tokenized ‘reality’). You can think of this (...)
    Remove from this list   Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
1 — 50 / 1027