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...Tobias Rosefeldt A. B. Dickerson, Kant on Representation and Objectivity . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. x + 217 pp. Cornell University 2007 BOOK REVIEWS Jody Azzouni, Defl ating Existential Consequence: A Case for Nominalism. New York: Oxford...

...Jeffrey E. Brower; Susan Brower-Toland This essay explores some of the central aspects of Aquinas's account of mental representation, focusing in particular on his views about the intentionality of concepts (or intelligible species). It begins by demonstrating the need for a new interpretation...

...Franz Dietrich; Christian List This essay presents a new “reason-based” approach to the formal representation of moral theories, drawing on recent decision-theoretic work. It shows that any moral theory within a very large class can be represented in terms of two parameters: (i) a specification...

...Ian Proops Zalabardo José , Representation and Reality in Wittgenstein's “Tractatus.” Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2015 . 263 pp . © 2017 by Cornell University 2017 In deference to the extraordinary richness and dialectical subtlety of the Tractatus , José Zalabardo does...

... in a perspectival and self-interested way. Descartes maintains further that, so considered, sensations are “suffi- ciently clear and distinct” (AT 7:83) and “report the truth” (AT 7:89), claims that suggest representationality. At best, then, Descartes is ambiguous about the representational status...

...Michael Rescorla Shea Nicholas , Representation in Cognitive Science . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2018 . xi + 292 pp . © 2021 by Cornell University 2021 Nicholas Shea's writings are required reading for philosophers of mind, especially those interested in the mind...

...Franklin Mason PARTS AND PLACES: THE STRUCTURES OF SPATIAL REPRESENTATION. By Roberto Casati and Achille C. Varzi. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1999. Pp. 238. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS important philosophical topic. It deserves readers who...

...Reinaldo Elugardo; Robert J. Stainton Charles Travis, Unshadowed Thought: Representations in Thought and Language. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.Pp. 263. Cornell University 2002 BOOK REVIEWS References Gupta...

.... For most of the twentieth century, discussion of minimum condi- tions for empirical representation of physical subject matters had a defi- nite directional bias. This bias is what I call Individual Representationalism. According to this view, an individual cannot objectively and empirically represent...

...Gabriel Greenberg It is common to distinguish two great families of representation. Symbolic representations include logical and mathematical symbols, words, and complex linguistic expressions. Iconic representations include dials, diagrams, maps, pictures, 3-dimensional models, and depictive...

... ‘propositions’—including Soames ( 2013 ) and King ( 1996 )—will count as representational structuralists by my accounting. Soames, for instance, talks about distinct but ‘representationally identical’ propositions: a contradiction in terms, according to my use of ‘proposition’. 8. Albeit not the only...

...Catharine Abell Depiction is the form of representation distinctive of figurative paintings, drawings, and photographs. Accounts of depiction attempt to specify the relation something must bear to an object in order to depict it. Resemblance accounts hold that the notion of resemblance is necessary...

... of representationalism, according to which the contents of experiences consist of objects and properties, and a fortiori the represented properties determine the representational contents . I am not concerned with Fregean versions, according to which these contents are composed of modes of presentations of objects...

... the relevant representational content in terms that make no reference to phenom- enal character, otherwise one would be explaining phenomenal charac- ter in terms of itself. Consequently, as Chalmers (2004, 175) puts it, his view is “naturally seen as a sort of nonreductive representationalism...

...Gabriel Greenberg What is it for a picture to depict a scene? The most orthodox philosophical theory of pictorial representation holds that depiction is grounded in resemblance. A picture represents a scene in virtue of being similar to that scene in certain ways. This essay presents evidence...

... mistake, which this essay calls the “numerical fallacy,” is to assume that a distinction that isn't represented by different numbers isn't represented at all in a mathematical representation. In this case, the essay claims that although the real numbers do not make all relevant distinctions, the full...

..., the author argues that core object representations have epistemic statuses like beliefs do, despite their many prototypically perceptual features. First, the author argues that it is a sufficient condition on a mental state's having an epistemic status as justified or unjustified that the state is based...

...) may also be shifted by operators in the representation language. Indeed verbs that create hyperintensional contexts, like `think', are treated as operators that simultaneously shift the world and assignment parameters. By contrast, metaphysical modal operators shift the world of assessment only. Names...

... as knowing the proposition expressed because that is the semantic contribution of the parenthetical. This view is called PARENTHETICALISM . The article contends that parentheticalism better explains knowledge representation than alternatives. As a consequence of outperforming assertoric explanations...