Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781009217255 |
| ISBN10: | 1009217259 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 75 pages |
| Size: | 230x153x5 mm |
| Weight: | 136 g |
| Language: | English |
| 583 |
Category:
Mental Content
Series:
Elements in Philosophy of Mind;
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 31 August 2023
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Short description:
This Element provides a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of contemporary mental content theories, including discussions of current issues.
Long description:
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 considering some recent developments in the debate about mental content, specifically the "explanatory turn" and its implications for questions about representations in basic cognitive systems and the representational character of current empirical theories of cognition.
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction; 2. Basic concepts and distinctions; 3. Mental content: main questions; 4. Theories of mental content I: naturalizing content; 5. Theories of mental content II: interpretationism and intentional stance theory; 6. Theories of mental content III: the phenomenal intentionality approach; 7. Skepticism about content: anti-representationalist approaches; 8. Recent developments; References.
