Representation In Mind Research Articles

Deciphering an enigma

A Logical Journey: From Godel to Philosophy (Representation of Mind) by Hao Wang MIT Press: 1996. Pp. 402. $40, £33.95 Logical Dilemmas: The Life and Death of Kurt Godel by John Dawson A. K. Peters: 1996. Pp. 376. $49.95, £36

History and Archetypes

F YOU WERE fortunate enough to have access to the household of Dorothy and Dick Swift in the mid-nineteen fifties you didn't need Prozac. You could cheer up, instead, on wit and delight and laughter, and on an appreciation of the ridiculous that helped to ward off any danger of pomposity. In this latter task one member of the household was particularly active. Her name was Lulu, and that she bore the same name as the lead character in the opera about which Dick was writing a master's thesis was no mere coincidence. In my mind's representation of them each one reflects something of the other's aura-perhaps because I came to know them together. But I am absolutely convinced that their sharing of one another's qualities is essential, not coincidental.

Understanding the representational mind: A phenomenological perspective

This paper reflects on the relationship between Husserlian phenomenology and scientific psychology. It tries to show how phenomenological results have relevance and validity for present-day cognitive developmental psychology by arguing that consciousness matters in the study of the representational mind. The paper presents some methodological remarks concerning empirical or applied phenomenology; it describes the conception of an exploratory developmental study with 3 to 9-year-old children viewing a complex pictorial display; it then illustrates how a phenomenological interpretation of the data works; in conclusion, it sketches a view of realism about conscious experiences which is taken to be inherent in the phenomenological perspective of understanding the representational mind.

Masking of Children's Early Understanding of the Representational Mind: Backwards Explanation versus Prediction

3-5-year-olds heard a story involving identical twins, one of whom was absent when their ball was moved from one drawer to another. Children found it easy to infer that the twin who later went to the original location to get the ball was the one who had gone outside. Children in a comparison condition found it relatively difficult to predict where a (nonidentical) twin who was absent when the ball was moved, would search for the ball, and made the usual realist error. In further investigations involving variations on the identical twins task, children were equally successful at making the link between looking in the wrong place and having been absent, whether a backwards inference was required (as above) or a forwards one (inferring that the twin who went outside must now be the one who was at the wrong location). We ruled out one twin's physical association with the correct location as an artifactual explanation for facilitation. Children performed well whether or not the experimenter told them explicitly which twin did not know the ball had been moved. These findings support the view that children's early insight into the representational character of mind is masked in traditional prediction tests of false belief.

Masking of Children's Early Understanding of the Representational Mind: Backwards Explanation versus Prediction

Masking of Children's Early Understanding of the Representational Mind: Backwards Explanation versus Prediction

On distinguishing phenomenal consciousness from the representational functions of mind

AbstractOne can share Block's aim of distinguishing “phenomenal” experience from cognitive function and agree with much in his views, yet hold that the inclusion of representational content within phenomenal content, if only in certain spatial cases, obscures this distinction. It may also exclude some modular theories, although it is interestingly suggestive of what may be the limits of the phenomenal penetration of the representational mind.

A strategy of knowledge representation for uncertain problems: modeling domain expert knowledge with patterns

Patterns as sets of somehow coherent information are feasible metaphors and tools for representation of weakly structured or unstructured knowledge in an open, infinite world. This view follows the evolutionary theory of mind representation. A practical computational formulation is given with pattern relationships based on the metapattern concept. The pattern space is mostly nonmetric due to the limited dimensional view of infinite dimensional objects. The faults of the metric suggest directions in exploring further knowledge and eliciting tacit knowledge of experts. Man-machine interaction has a special role in the process, explored by cognitive psychology methods and special graphic tools for input-output representation.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>

The Representational Theory of Mind: An Introduction.

A functionalist theory of the mind representation and computation representation, computation and implementation Marr on vision - Fodor on the mind's organization, the theory in action individualism explaining content eliminativism connectionism reduction and autonomy explaining intelligence.

In and out of the mind: Greek images of the tragic self

The representations of mind in Greek tragedy are central to Western views of inwardness. Tragedy speaks of inwardness as woundable, dark, invaded by destructive passions. this wide-ranging work Ruth Padel relates ancient tragedy to the biology and daemonology of the time, exploring Greek conceptions of the human interior and the ways in which Greek tragic literature shaped how we speak about our inner selves today. In and Out of the Mind reflects the cross-fertilization of the author's classical training with anthropology, history of religion and medicine, gender studies, and psychoanalysis. Arguing that Greek tragic language connects images of consciousness, even male consciousness, with the darkness attributed both to Hades and to women, Padel analyzes tragedy's biological and daemonological metaphors for what is within. Although these images are part of our inherited culture, their use in tragedy reveals attitudes toward feeling that are alien to modern readers. The author provides important background to fascinating aspects of Greek life, such as entrail divination, impurity rituals, and belief in divinity inside and outside human selves, showing how these relate to the Greek understanding of mind. Central to her discussion is the question of how and why all human beings, female and male, suffer.

Book Review: Understanding the Representational Mind

Book Review: Understanding the Representational Mind

A Neuroethological Framework for the Representation of Minds

The cognition that constructs mental features such as intention, disposition, and character is an aspect of theory of mind. This aspect of representation of minds, which inherently has valence, is viewed from cognitive, evolutionary, and neural perspectives. It is proposed that this cognition is modular, and that it normally operates in association with a valence-free cognition able to represent mental states such as belief. Examples of neural activity capable of supporting the social representations macaque monkeys are believed to possess (understanding of affective displays, purposeful movement, and elemental social interactions) are presented.

Metaphor as illness: postmodern dilemmas in the representation of body, mind and disorder.

The search for a synthesis bridging the gap between materialist and idealist approaches in anthropological theory has been invigorated by recent efforts to develop a critical medical anthropology. Not limited to integrating class analysis and cultural interpretation, the "mindful body" paradigm also aims at empowering the ill, whose experience is denied by biomedical and psychiatric categories that locate disease either in the body or in the mind, and treat them separately from one another and independently of social context. However, missing from the "mindful body" discourse is a reflexive awareness of its contextual grounding in both popular and biomedical discourses of illness, with which it exchanges meanings and from which it borrows dominating power. The case of cancer as a metaphorized illness and a pathologized trope is used to illustrate this process.

Representational Mind: A Study of Kant's Theory of Knowledge.

Representational Mind: A Study of Kant's Theory of Knowledge.

A Methodology for Cross-cultural Ethnomedical Research [and Comments and Reply

A Methodology for Cross-cultural Ethnomedical Research [and Comments and Reply

Representational Mind: A Study of Kant's Theory of Knowledge.

Representational Mind: A Study of Kant's Theory of Knowledge.

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Genesis, with an Introduction to Narrative Literature. By George W. Coats. Genesis 1–11: A Commentary. By Claus Westermann. The Enemy is my Guest: Jesus and Violence in Luke. By J. Massyngberde‐Ford. God of the Lowly: Socio‐Historical Interpretation of the Bible. Edited by Willy Schottroff and Wolfgang Stegeman. La Naissance des évangiles Synoptiques By Jean Carmignac. Les Premiers évangiles: Un Nouveau Regard sur le Probleme Synoptique. By Philippe Holland. Law in Paul's Thought. By Hans Hübner. The Glory of the Lord, A Theological Aesthetics, II: Studies in Theological Style: Clerical Styles. By Hans Urs von Balthasar, edited by John Riches, translated by Andrew Louth, Francis McDonagh and Brian McNeil. Origen, Spirit and Fire: A Thematic Anthology of his Writings. By Hans Urs von Balthasar, translated by Robert J. Daly. Tibet. Translated with an Introduction by Robert A.F. Thurman. The Relevance of Bliss: A Contemporary Exploration of Mystic Experience. By Nona Coxhead. Christian Mysticism: The Future of a Tradition. By Harvey B. Egan. Unsearchable Riches: The Symbolic Nature of Liturgy. By David N. Power. Priest as Type of Christ: The Leader of the Eucharist in Salvation History A ccordint to Cyprian of Carthage. By John D. Laurence. Beyond East and West: Problems in Liturgical Understanding. By Robert Taft. Towards Christian Reunion. By Luis M. Bermejo. The True Church and the Poor. By Jon Sobrino. Ethos und Kirchliches Lehramt. By Josef Schuster. Humanity in God. By Elisabeth Moltmann‐Wendel and Jurgen Moltmann‐Wendel. Theism. By Clement Dore. The Existence and Nature of God. Edited by Alfred J. Freddoso. Christian Theism: A Study in its Basic Principles. By Huw Parri Owen. Experience, Explanation and Faith: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion. By Anthony O'Hear. Matter and Consciousness: A Contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind. By Paul M. Churchland. Introduction to the Problem of Individuation in the Early Middle Ages. By Jorge J.E. Gracia. Paulus Venetus: Logica Parva (1472 ed.). Trans, with introduction and notes by Alan R. Perreiah. Representational Mind: A Study of Kant's Theory of Knowledge. By Richard E. Aquila. An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent. By John Henry Newman. Edited by I.T. Ker. Natural Reason: A Study of the Notions of Inference, Assent, Intuition, and First Principles in the Philosophy of John Henry Cardinal Newman. By Gerard Casey. Wittgenstein: A Social Theory of Knowledge. By David Bloor. Contingent Immaterialism: Meaning, Freedom, Time, and Mind. By Ben Mijuskovic. Struggles of Gods: Papers of the Groningen Work Group for the Study of the History of Religions. Edited by H.G. Kippenberg. The Buddha. By Michael Carrithers. Rituals and Power: The Roman Imperial Cult in Asia Minor. By S.R.F. Price. Religion in Roman Britain. By Martin Henig. Makarios‐Symeon.‐Epistola Magna. Edited by Reinhart Staats, Pp.196, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1984, 136 DM. Texte zur Geschichte des frühchristlichen Osterkalenders. By August Strobel. The Byzantine Empire 1025–1204: A Political History. By Michael Angold. Byzantium: Church, Society and Civilization Seen Through Contemporary Eyes. By Deno J. Geanakoplos. The Birth of Purgatory. By Jacques Le Goff, translated by Arthur Goldhammer. De Dominis (1560–1624): Venetian, Anglican, Ecumenist and Relapsed Heretic. By Noel Malcolm. Francois Genet: The Man and his Methodology. By James R. Pollock.

Representational Mind

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Representational Mind. A Study of Kant's Theory of Knowledge (review)

Representational Mind. A Study of Kant's Theory of Knowledge (review)

Representational Mind: A Study of Kant's Theory of Knowledge

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