Rerepresentation Readings in the Philosophy of Mental Representation
This collection of papers on issues in the theory of mental representation expresses a diversity of recent reflections on the idea that C. D. Broad so aptly characterized in the title of his book Mind and the World Order. An important impetus in the proje
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PInLOSOPHICAL STUDIES SERIES
Editors: WILFRID SELLARS, University of Pittsburgh KEITH LEHRER, University ofArizona
Board of Consulting Editors: JONATHAN BENNETI, Syracuse University ALLAN GIBBARD, University of Michigan
ROBERT STALNAKER, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ROBERT G. TURNBULL, Ohio State University
VOLUME 40
REREPRESENTATION Readings in the Philosophy of Mental Representation
Edited by
STUART SILVERS Tilburg University. The Netherlands
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS DORDRECHf I BOSTON I LONDON
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TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE
ix
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
x
STUART SILVERS / Introduction: Some Remarks on Meaning and Mental Representation
xiii
JERRY A. FODOR / Semantics, Wisconsin Style ROBERT CUMMINS / Representation and Covariation
19
TYLER BURGE / Individualism and Psychology
39
PIERRE JACOB / Thoughts and Belief Ascriptions
77
ROBERT J. MATTHEWS / The Alleged Evidence for Representationalism
103
MICHAEL McDERMOTT / Narrow Content
123
LYNNE RUDDER BAKER / A Farewell to Functionalism
137
ROBERT VAN GULICK / Metaphysical Arguments for Internalism and Why They Don't Work
151
ERNEST LE PORE ,and BARRY LOEWER / Dual Aspect Semantics
161
JERRY SAMET and OWEN FLANAGAN / Innate Representations
189
HILARY PUTNAM / Reflexive Reflections
211
PAUL M. CHURCHLAND / Some Reductive Strategies in Cognitive Neurobiology
223
GARY HATFIELD / Computation, Representation, and Content in Noncognitive Theories of Perception
255
JOSEPH THOMAS TOLLIVER / Beliefs Out of Control
289
viii
DAVID M. ROSENTHAL / Intentionality Postscript October, 1987
311 341
JOHN HElL / Intentionality Speaks for Itself
345
MICHAEL DEVITT / A Narrow Representational Theory of the Mind
369
NAME INDEX
403
SUBJECT INDEX
409
PREFACE This collection of papers on issues in the theory of mental representation expresses a diversity of recent reflections on the idea that C.D. Broad so aptly characterized in the title of his book Mind and the World Order. An important impetus in the project of organizing this work were
