Journal article
Naturalising representational content
- Abstract:
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This paper sets out a view about the explanatory role of representational content and advocates one approach to naturalising content – to giving a naturalistic account of what makes an entity a representation and in virtue of what it has the content it does. It argues for pluralism about the metaphysics of content and suggests that a good strategy is to ask the content question with respect to a variety of predictively successful information processing models in experimental psychology and co...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Funding
Wellcome Trust
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Oxford Martin School
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John Fell Fund
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Wiley Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Philosophy Compass Journal website
- Volume:
- 8
- Issue:
- 5
- Pages:
- 496–509
- Publication date:
- 2013-05-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1747-9991
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Subjects:
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- Local pid:
- ora:9816
- Deposit date:
- 2015-01-28
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- Copyright holder:
- Shea, N
- Copyright date:
- 2013
- Notes:
- © 2013 The Author. Philosophy Compass © 2013 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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