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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"representational content"”.
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THE PERSISTENCE OF INDETERMINACY: CONTEMPORARY THEORIES AND KRIPKENSTEIN'S CHALLENGE TO REPRESENTATIONAL CONTENT
This thesis is concerned with the foundations of representational content. There is a familiar feature of words, sentences, beliefs, and perceptions: they are about, or mean, or represent something. The sentence “cats are cute” is about cats being cute, and my belief that cats are cute is also …
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A compatibilist computational theory of mind
… in particular seeks to reject the idea of representational content, a key part in the computational theory of mind. To this end I propose a Compatibilist Computational Theory of Mind. This compatibilist theory incorporates embodied and embedded elements of cognition and also supports a …
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Consciousness, concepts and content
… prominently in the defense and elaboration of representational accounts of phenomenal consciousness. Indeed, any adequate defense of (reductive) representationalism will require an appeal to so-called phenomenal concepts to deflect a group of related anti-physicalist (and hence …
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A correspondence theory of musical representation
… of representation in music. Music’s status as a representational art has been hotly debated since the War of the Romantics, which pitted the Weimar progressives (Liszt, Wagner, &co.) against the Leipzig conservatives (the Schumanns, Brahms, &co.) in an intellectual struggle for what each side …
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Practical knowledge and abilities
… this special sort of know-how, while possessing representational content, is not simply ordinary knowledge-that. The view rests on a novel distinction between two interpretations of the Intellectualist slogan, familiar from the work of Gilbert Ryle, that know-how is a kind of knowledge-that. The …
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Children's mental representation of referential relations : representational partitioning and "theory of mind"
… the “referential opacity” raised by the representational nature of the mind. I interpreted the findings of Russell (1987) as evidence for a developmental dissociation between handling of intensional contexts - due to the partial nature of representations - and “intentional” referential …
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Lessons in smelling : essays on olfactory perception
… into three topics: 1) the nature, and extent, of representational content, 2) qualia and the alleged transparency of experience and 3) the nature of the secondary qualities. In the first chapter, I consider the challenge that olfactory experience presents to upholding a representational view of …
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Implicit abandonment distress
… rather than a rejection stimulus, and the representational content associated with abandonment distress did not appear to be organized in terms of discrete self-other meaning elements. Overall, the findings suggest that situations in which the meaning of a relational event is open to …
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Representational dynamics across multiple timescales in human cortical networks
… to guide behavior, this thesis examined representational content within sensory regions, multiple demand (MD) network, and default mode network (DMN). Chapter 1 provides a background review of the current literature. It begins by reviewing experimental investigations of component visual …
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Multi-level models of language comprehension in the mind and brain
… these questions, rooted in the idea that representational claims must jointly assert a content — what a mental representation is about — but also a computational role — why it is there, and what concrete function it serves in bringing about language behavior. The first part of the thesis …
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The Functional Contributions of Consciousness
… stimuli, increased spatiotemporal precision, and representational integration over larger spatiotemporal intervals. My third chapter discusses the domain of emotional processing, where I argue that experience facilitates the inhibition of, the conceptualization of, and flexible response to …
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Normativity and Representation in Kant's Theory of Cognition
… I argue that Kant holds that certain forms of representational content constitutively depend on normative constraint. This applies to all of the kinds of content that can be captured by concepts (viz. ‘kind’-properties, and the objective temporal structures that correspond to the “categories”). …
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New evidence of functional interactions within the hand motor system
… of defined areas in specific motor tasks, their representational content and their connectivity profiles. In the three neuroimaging studies here presented, we first considered the functional dynamics that occur within the hand network (Chapter 2). Secondly, we described a broader and integrated …