| Author | : William M. Ramsey |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 2007-06-21 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780521859875 |
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Documents Illustrative of the Formation of the Union of the American States
| Author | : Library of Congress. Legislative Reference Service |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1160 |
| Release | : 1927 |
| Genre | : Archives |
| ISBN | : |
What are Mental Representations?
| Author | : Joulia Smortchkova |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2020-09-28 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0190686685 |
The topic of this book is mental representation, a theoretical concept that lies at the core of cognitive science. Together with the idea that thinking is analogous to computational processing, this concept is responsible for the "cognitive turn" in the sciences of the mind and brain since the 1950s. Conceiving of cognitive processes (such as perception, reasoning, and motor control) as consisting of the manipulation of contentful vehicles that represent the world has led to tremendous empirical advancements in our explanations of behaviour. Perhaps the most famous discovery that explains behavior by appealing to the notion of mental representations was the discovery of 'place' cells that underlie spatial navigation and positioning, which earned researchers John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser, and Edvard I. Moser a joint Nobel Prize in 2014. And yet, despite the empirical importance of the concept, there is no agreed definition or theoretical understanding of mental representation. This book constitutes a state-of-the-art overview on the topic of mental representation, assembling some of the leading experts in the field and allowing them to engage in meaningful exchanges over some of the most contentious questions. The collection gathers both proponents and critics of the notion, making room for debates dealing with the theoretical and ontological status of representations, the possibility of formulating a general account of mental representation which would fit our best explanatory practices, and the possibility of delivering such an account in fully naturalistic terms. Some contributors explore the relation between mutually incompatible notions of mental representation, stemming from the different disciplines composing the cognitive sciences (such as neuroscience, psychology, and computer science). Others question the ontological status and explanatory usefulness of the notion. And finally, some try to sketch a general theory of mental representations that could face the challenges outlined in the more critical chapters of the volume.
The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787
| Author | : James Madison |
| Publisher | : Prometheus Books |
| Total Pages | : 742 |
| Release | : 2006-12-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1615922962 |
Excerpt from The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, Which Framed the Constitution of the United States of America Les images suivantes ont m reproduites avec le plus grand soin. Compte tenu de la condition et de la nettete de l'eaamplaire filme. At an conformita avec les conditions du contrat de lilmage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787
| Author | : United States. Constitutional Convention |
| Publisher | : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. |
| Total Pages | : 836 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1886363773 |
Representation in Cognitive Science
| Author | : Nicholas Shea |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2018-10-04 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0198812884 |
Our thoughts are meaningful. We think about things in the outside world; how can that be so? This is one of the deepest questions in contemporary philosophy. Ever since the 'cognitive revolution', states with meaning-mental representations-have been the key explanatory construct of the cognitive sciences. But there is still no widely accepted theory of how mental representations get their meaning. Powerful new methods in cognitive neuroscience can now reveal information processing in the brain in unprecedented detail. They show how the brain performs complex calculations on neural representations. Drawing on this cutting-edge research, Nicholas Shea uses a series of case studies from the cognitive sciences to develop a naturalistic account of the nature of mental representation. His approach is distinctive in focusing firmly on the 'subpersonal' representations that pervade so much of cognitive science. The diversity and depth of the case studies, illustrated by numerous figures, make this book unlike any previous treatment. It is important reading for philosophers of psychology and philosophers of mind, and of considerable interest to researchers throughout the cognitive sciences.
Representation and Reality in Humans, Other Living Organisms and Intelligent Machines
| Author | : Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 379 |
| Release | : 2017-08-29 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 3319437844 |
This book enriches our views on representation and deepens our understanding of its different aspects. It arises out of several years of dialog between the editors and the authors, an interdisciplinary team of highly experienced researchers, and it reflects the best contemporary view of representation and reality in humans, other living beings, and intelligent machines. Structured into parts on the cognitive, computational, natural sciences, philosophical, logical, and machine perspectives, a theme of the field and the book is building and presenting networks, and the editors hope that the contributed chapters will spur understanding and collaboration between researchers in domains such as computer science, philosophy, logic, systems theory, engineering, psychology, sociology, anthropology, neuroscience, linguistics, and synthetic biology.
Idolatry and Representation
| Author | : Leora Batnitzky |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2009-07-06 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1400823587 |
Although Franz Rosenzweig is arguably the most important Jewish philosopher of the twentieth century, his thought remains little understood. Here, Leora Batnitzky argues that Rosenzweig's redirection of German-Jewish ethical monotheism anticipates and challenges contemporary trends in religious studies, ethics, philosophy, anthropology, theology, and biblical studies. This text, which captures the hermeneutical movement of Rosenzweig's corpus, is the first to consider the full import of the cultural criticism articulated in his writings on the modern meanings of art, language, ethics, and national identity. In the process, the book solves significant conundrums about Rosenzweig's relation to German idealism, to other major Jewish thinkers, to Jewish political life, and to Christianity, and brings Rosenzweig into conversation with key contemporary thinkers. Drawing on Rosenzweig's view that Judaism's ban on idolatry is the crucial intellectual and spiritual resource available to respond to the social implications of human finitude, Batnitzky interrogates idolatry as a modern possibility. Her analysis speaks not only to the question of Judaism's relationship to modernity (and vice versa), but also to the generic question of the present's relationship to the past--a subject of great importance to anyone contemplating the modern statuses of religious tradition, reason, science, and historical inquiry. By way of Rosenzweig, Batnitzky argues that contemporary philosophers and ethicists must relearn their approaches to religious traditions and texts to address today's central ethical problems.
Neural Machines: A Defense of Non-Representationalism in Cognitive Neuroscience
| Author | : Matej Kohár |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 199 |
| Release | : 2023-03-09 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 303126746X |
In this book, Matej Kohar demonstrates how the new mechanistic account of explanation can be used to support a non-representationalist view of explanations in cognitive neuroscience, and therefore can bring new conceptual tools to the non-representationalist arsenal. Kohar focuses on the explanatory relevance of representational content in constitutive mechanistic explanations typical in cognitive neuroscience. The work significantly contributes to two areas of literature: 1) the debate between representationalism and non-representationalism, and 2) the literature on mechanistic explanation. Kohar begins with an introduction to the mechanistic theory of explanation, focusing on the analysis of mechanistic constitution as the basis of explanatory relevance in constitutive mechanistic explanation. He argues that any viable analysis of representational contents implies that content is not constitutively relevant to cognitive phenomena. The author also addresses objections against his argument and concludes with an examination of the consequences of his account for both traditional cognitive neuroscience and non-representationalist alternatives. This book is of interest to readers in philosophy of mind, cognitive science and neuroscience.
