Representation in Cognitive Science

• Main Author: Shea, Nicholas
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Oxford University Press 2018; Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Cognitive neuroscience; Cognitive Science; cognitive sciences; Cognitive studies; contemporary philosophy; Interdisciplinary studies; Mental representation; mental representations; Philosophy of Mind; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Science; teleosemantics; structural correspondence; meaning; exploitable relation; mental representation; theories of content; RTM; naturalism; intentionality; semantic information

"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 t...