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9780262381963
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11-03-2025
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MIT Press
Auteur(s)
Frances Egan
Deflating Mental Representation
Reeks: Jean Nicod Lectures
Frances Egan
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A
novel
account
of
the
explanatory
role
of
representation
in
both
the
cognitive
sciences
and
commonsense
practice
that
preserves
the
virtues
without
the
defects
of
the
prevailing
two
views
about
mental
representation.Philosophers
of
mind
tend
to
hold
one
of
two
broad
views
about
mental
representation:
they
are
either
robustly
realist
about
mental
representations,
taking
them
to
have
determinate,
objective
content
independent
of
attributors’
explanatory
interests
and
goals,
or
they
embrace
some
form
of
anti-realism,
holding
that
mental
representations
are
at
best
useful
fictions.
Neither
view
is
satisfactory.
In
Deflating
Mental
Representation,
Frances
Egan
develops
and
defends
a
distinctive
third
way—a
view
she
calls
a
deflationary
account
of
mental
representation—that
both
resolves
philosophical
worries
about
content
and
best
fits
actual
practice
in
science
and
everyday
life.According
to
Egan’s
deflationary
account,
appeal
to
mental
representation
does
indeed
pick
out
causes
of
behavior,
but
the
attribution
of
content
to
these
causes
is
best
understood
as
a
pragmatically
motivated
gloss,
justified
in
part
by
attributors’
explanatory
interests
and
goals.
Content
plays
an
explanatory
role
in
the
deflationary
account,
but
one
quite
different
than
that
assumed
by
robust
representational
realists.
Egan
also
develops
a
novel
account
of
perceptual
experience
as
a
kind
of
modeling
of
our
inner
lives
by
aspects
of
external
reality
and
explains
the
role
of
appeal
to
representation
in
this process.
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