Knowledge and Representation
edited by Albert Newen, Andreas Bartels, and Eva-Maria Jung
This compilation of cutting-edge philosophical and scientific research
comprises a survey of recent neuroscientific research on
representational systems in animals and humans. Representational
systems provide their owners with useful information about their
environment and are shaped by the special informational needs of the
organism with respect to its environment. In this volume, the
authors address the long-standing dispute about the usefulness of
the notion of representation in the study of behavior systems and
offer a fresh perspective on representational systems that combines
philosophical insights and experimental experience.
Albert Newen is a professor at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Institut für Philosophie. Andreas Bartels is a professor at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität at Bonn, Institut für Philosophie. Eva-Maria Jung teaches at Westfalische Wilhelms-Universität Munster
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Knowledge and Representation in the Recent Discussion: An Introduction
Andreas Bartels, Eva-Maria Jung & Albert Newen
- Part I: Knowledge
- 2 Intellectualism as Cognitive Science
Martin Roth & Robert Cummins
- 3 Intellectualism and the language of Thought: A Reply to Roth and Cummins
Jason Stanley
- 4 Irreducible Forms of Knowledge-How in Patients with Visuomotor Pathologies: An Arguement against Intellectualism
Garry Young
- 5 Understanding Knowledge in a New Framework: Against Intellectualism as a Semantic Analysis and an Analysis of Mind
Eva-Maria Jung & Albert Newen
- Part II: Representation
- 6 Representation in Analog Computation
Gerard O'Brien & Jon Opie
- 7 Representing Time of Day in Circadian Clocks
William Bechtel
- 8 The Explanatory Value of Representations in Cognitive Neuroscience
Kai Vogeley & Andreas Bartels
- 9 Varieties of Representation
Gottfried Vosgerau
- 10 Why Cognitive Neuroscience Should Adopt a “Pragmatic Stance”
Andreas K. Engel
- Index
July 2011
ISBN (Paperback): 1575866307 (9781575866307)
ISBN (Cloth): 1575866315 (9781575866314)
ISBN (Electronic): 1575869403 (9781575869407)
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