Mental Representation A Reader

This volume is a collection of new and previously published essays focusing on one of the most exciting and actively discussed topics in contemporary philosophy: naturalistic theories of mental content. The volume brings together important papers written by some of the most distinguished theorists working in the field today. Authors contributing to the volume include Jerry Fodor, Rugh Millikan, Fred Dretske, Ned Block, Robert Cummins, and Daniel Dennett.

Stephen P. Stich is Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Rutgers University. He is author of From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science and The Fragmentation of Reason.

Ted A. Warfield is currently a PhD candidate in the department of philosophy at Rutgers University where he holds a University Excellence Fellowship. He is the author of a number of articles on various topics in the philosophy of mind and epistemology.

List of Contributors
Introduction
Introduction
Fodor's Guide to Mental Representation
Mental Representation
The Theories
Conceptual Role Semantics
Advertisment for a Semantics for Psychology
Why Meaning (Probably Isn't Conceptual Role
Information Based Semantics
Misrepresentation
From Information to Intentionality
Asymmetric Dependence
A Theory of Content, II: The Theory
Fodorian Semantics
Teleogy
Biosemantics
A Continuum of Semantic Optimism
Interpretational Semantics
Interpretational Semantics
Computation and Mental Representation
Intentional Systems Theory
True Believers: The Intentional Strategy and Why it Works
Instrumental Intentionality
Epilogue:
What is a Theory of Mental Representation?
References and Bibliography
Index
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