dc.contributor.author | Raftopoulos, Athanassios | en |
dc.creator | Raftopoulos, Athanassios | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-07-27T10:22:12Z | |
dc.date.available | 1 | |
dc.date.available | 2017-07-27T10:22:12Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 22511865 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://gnosis.library.ucy.ac.cy/handle/7/37590 | |
dc.description.abstract | Any discussion concerning representations in cognitive psychology and science assumes that mental representational contents are carried by brain representational vehicles. Recently Sedivy attacked the view that mental contents are carried by vehicles. Sedivy relies on Dennett's work to argue that mental contents cannot be carried by vehicles because the former cannot be independently individuated whereas the latter are, by definition, independently individuated by means of their semantic properties. In this paper, I claim that mental contents are carried by neural vehicles and that Sedivy misunderstands Dennett's work on the relation between the mental and the neural by confounding the algorithmic and the computational level of description. I analyze connectionist representations that Dennett favors and which are the most amenable to Sedivy's concerning the context dependency of contents on which Sedivy builds her arguments, and argue that in connectionism, there is a clear cut distinction between contents and vehicles that carry these contents. ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]; Copyright of Annual International Conference on Cognitive & Behavioral Psychology is the property of Global Science & Technology Forum and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.) | en |
dc.publisher | Global Science & Technology Forum | en |
dc.source | Annual International Conference on Cognitive & Behavioral Psychology | en |
dc.subject | Cognitive psychology research | en |
dc.subject | Brain | en |
dc.subject | Logical positivism | en |
dc.subject | Dynamical systems | en |
dc.subject | Neural networks | en |
dc.subject | Physicalism | en |
dc.subject | Representational contents | en |
dc.subject | Representational vehicles | en |
dc.title | Are Mental Contents Carried by Neural Vehicles? | en |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.5176/2251-1865_CBP17.19 | |
dc.description.startingpage | 63 | |
dc.description.endingpage | 72 | |
dc.author.faculty | Σχολή Κοινωνικών Επιστημών και Επιστημών Αγωγής / Faculty of Social Sciences and Education | |
dc.author.department | Τμήμα Ψυχολογίας / Department of Psychology | |
dc.type.uhtype | Article | en |
dc.contributor.orcid | Raftopoulos, Athanassios [0000-0002-6865-7127] | |
dc.gnosis.orcid | 0000-0002-6865-7127 | |