Meaning and mental representation /

Meaning and mental representation /

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Author / Creator:	Cummins, Robert, 1944-
Imprint:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1989. ©1989
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 180 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Mental representation. Meaning (Philosophy) Representation (Philosophy) Mind and body. Knowledge, Theory of. Science -- Philosophy. Science -- Philosophy. Representation (Philosophy) Mind and body. Knowledge, Theory of. Meaning (Philosophy) Mental representation.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11796657

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ISBN:	9780262271028 0262271028 0585003505 9780585003504 0262031396 9780262031394 0262530961 9780262530965
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Notes:	"A Bradford book." Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-176)-and indexes. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2012. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2012 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Cummins, Robert, 1944- Meaning and mental representation. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1989

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Item Description:	"A Bradford book."
Physical Description:	1 online resource (viii, 180 pages) : illustrations
Format:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-176)-and indexes.
ISBN:	9780262271028 0262271028 0585003505 9780585003504 0262031396 9780262031394 0262530961 9780262530965