What Are Mental Representations?

ISBN-13: 9780190686673 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 344 str.

Joulia Smortchkova; Krzysztof Dolrega; Tobias Schlicht

Recenzje

Are mental representations real (and what would that mean anyway)? Should the notion of mental representation continue to play a core explanatory role in the sciences of mind, or it slowly being revealed as a false friend? This stunning collection covers all that ground and more. Essential reading for philosophers, cognitive scientists, and anyone interested in the nature of mind.

O autorze

Joulia Smortchkova is a philosopher of cognitive science, working at the University of Oxford as a postdoctoral fellow. She completed her PhD at the Jean Nicod Institute with a thesis on the social contents of perception. She works on social cognition, metacognition, mental representations, types of explanation and natural kinds in psychology. Krzysztof Dołęga is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, where he previously completed his PhD under the supervision of Tobias Schlicht and Daniel Dennett. His research interests cluster around topics such as consciousness, mental representation, computational explanation, and models of explanation more generally. Tobias Schlicht is Professor of Philosophy at the Ruhr-Universit¨Bochum with an interdisciplinary interest in consciousness and cognition. He wrote two books on the mind-body problem and social cognition and published numerous papers on consciousness, cognition and the foundations of cognitive science.