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Understanding Representation in the Cognitive Sciences

Does Representation Need Reality?

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Alexander Riegler

    1. Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

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  2. Markus Peschl

    1. University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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  3. Astrid Stein

    1. University/ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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Table of contents (32 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-8
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  2. Position Paper

    1. Does Representation Need Reality?

      • Markus F. Peschl, Alexander Riegler
      Pages 9-17

    2. Overview of Contributions

      Pages 19-22

  3. Different Facets of Representation

    1. The Connectionist Route to Embodiment and Dynamicism

      • Georg Dorffner
      Pages 23-32

    2. The Ontological Status of Representations

      • Matthias Scheutz
      Pages 33-38

    3. Empirical and Metaphysical Anti-Representationalism

      • Anthony Chemero
      Pages 39-47

    4. Representation in Cognitive Neuroscience

      • Alfredo Pereira Jr.
      Pages 49-56

    5. Cognition without Representation?

      • Daniel D. Hutto
      Pages 57-74
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urrently a paradigm shift is occurring in for the conventional understanding of represen- which the traditional view of the brain as tions. The paper also summarizes the rationale for C representing the "things of the world" is the selection of contributions to this volume, which challenged in several respects. The present volume will roughly proceed from relatively "realist" c- is placed at the edge of this transition. Based on the ceptions of representation to more "constructivist" 1997 conference "New Trends in Cognitive Sci- interpretations. The final chapter of discussions, ence" in Vienna, Austria, it tries to collect and in- taped during and at the end of the conference, p- grate evidence from various disciplines such as p- vides the reader with the possibility to reflect upon losophy of science, neuroscience, computational the different approaches and thus contributes to b- approaches, psychology, semiotics, evolutionary ter and more integrative understanding of their biology, social psychology etc. , to foster a new thoughts and ideas. understanding of representation. The subjective experience of an outside world This book has a truly interdisciplinary character. It seems to suggest a mapping process where environ- is presented in a form that is readily accessible to mental entities are projected into our mind via some professionals and students alike across the cognitive kind of transmission. While a profound critique of sciences such as neuroscience, computer science, this idea is nearly as old as philosophy, it has gained philosophy, psychology, and sociology.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

    Alexander Riegler

  • University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Markus Peschl

  • University/ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Astrid Stein

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