Meaning and Mental Representation

by Robert Cummins

Book Overview

In this provocative study, Robert Cummins takes on philosophers, both old and new, who pursue the question of mental representation as an abstraction, apart from the constraints of any particular theory or framework. Cummins asserts that mental representation is, in fact, a problem in the philosophy of science, a theoretical assumption that serves different explanatory roles within the different contexts of commonsense or "folk" psychology, orthodox...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262031396
• ISBN13: 9780262031394
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher