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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.
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Table of contents (32 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Position Paper
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Cognition as a Dynamical System
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Book Title: Understanding Representation in the Cognitive Sciences
Book Subtitle: Does Representation Need Reality?
Editors: Alexander Riegler, Markus Peschl, Astrid Stein
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b102513
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1999
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-46286-3Published: 31 January 2000
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-7245-6Published: 26 April 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-0-585-29605-0Published: 26 August 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 304
Topics: Neurology, Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy, general, Epistemology, Phenomenology, Artificial Intelligence
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