The world in the head /
The World in the Head collects the best of Robert Cummins' papers on mental representation and psychological explanation. Running through these papers are a pair of themes: that explaining the mind requires functional analysis, not subsumption under "psychological laws", and that the...
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- What is it like to be a computer?
- The LOT of the causal theory of mental content
- Systematicity
- Systematicity and the cognition of structured domains / Robert Cummins, Jim Blackmon, David Byrd, Pierre Poirier, Martin Roth, and Georg Schwarz
- Methodological reflections on belief
- Inexplicit information
- Representation and indication / Robert Cummins and Pierre Poirier
- Representation and unexploited content / Robert Cummins, Jim Blackmon, David Byrd, Alexa Lee, and Martin Roth
- Haugeland on representation and intentionality
- Truth and meaning
- Meaning and content in cognitive science / Robert Cummins and Martin Roth
- Representational specialization : the synthetic a priori revisited
- Biological preparedness and evolutionary explanation / Robert Cummins and Denise Dellarosa Cummins
- Cognitive evolutionary psychology without representational nativism / Robert Cummins, Denise Dellarosa Cummins, and Pierre Poirier
- Connectionism and the rationale constraint on cognitive explanation
- 'How does it work?' vs. 'What are the laws?' : two conceptions of psychological explanation.