Mark of the Mental Neander Karen Professor Duke University
Mark of the Mental Neander Karen Professor Duke University Drawing on insights from causal theories of reference, teleosemantics, and state space semantics, a theory of naturalized mental…
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Mark of the Mental Neander Karen Professor Duke University
Drawing on insights from causal theories of reference, teleosemantics, and state space semantics, a theory of naturalized mental representation.In A Mark of the Mental, Karen Neander considers the representational power of mental states--described by the cognitive scientist Zenon Pylyshyn as the "second hardest puzzle" of philosophy of mind (the first being consciousness). Neander proposes a naturalistic account for sensory-perceptual (nonconceptual) representations.Neander draws on insights from state-space semantics (which appeals to relations of second-order similarity between representing and The puzzle at the heart of the book is sometimes called "the problem of mental content," "Brentano's problem," or "the problem of intentionality." Its motivating mystery is how neurobiological states can have semantic properties such as meaning or reference.