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Book SynopsisRobert Cummins presents a series of essays motivated by the following question: Is the mind a collection of beliefs and desires that respond to and condition our feeling and perceptual experiences, or is this just a natural way to talk about it? What sort of conceptual framework do we need to understand what is really going on in our brains?
Trade ReviewThe papers in this collection constitute an important and stimulating contribution to these debates ... Researchers working on these and related issues will greatly benefit from the lucid and thought-provoking discussions gathered here. * Mind *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Preface ; 1. What it is like to be a computer ; 2. The LOT of the causal theory of mental content ; 3. Systematicity ; 4. Systematicity and the cognition of the structured domains with Jim Blackmon, David Byrd, Pierre Poirier, Martin Roth, and Georg Schwarz ; 5. Methodological reflections on belief ; 6. Inexplicit information ; 7. Representation and indication with Pierre Poirier ; 8. Representation and unexploited content with Jim Blackmon, David Byrd, Alexa Lee, and Martin Roth ; 9. Haugeland on representation and intentionality ; 10. Truth and meaning ; 11. Meaning and content in cognitive science with Martin Roth ; 12. Representational specialization: the synthetic a priori revisited ; 13. Biological preparedness and evolutionary explanation with Denise Dellarosa Cummins ; 14. Cognitive evolutionary psychology without representational nativism ; 15. Connectionism and the rationale constraint on cognitive explanation ; 16. 'How does it work?' vs. 'What are the laws?': Two conceptions of psychological explanation
