American philosopher Everett W. Hall (1901-1960) was among the first epistemologists writing in English to have promoted representationism, a currently popular explanation of cognition. According to this theory, there are no private sense-data or qualia: the representation of publicly perceivable, common-sense properties is considered sufficient to explain mental content. In this timely volume, Hall scholar Walter Horn provides copious excerpts from Hall's works in epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of language, as well as his own commentaries on Hall's unique blend of linguistic...
American philosopher Everett W. Hall (1901-1960) was among the first epistemologists writing in English to have promoted representationism, a currentl...