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dc.contributor.authorRaftopoulos, Athanassiosen
dc.creatorRaftopoulos, Athanassiosen
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-27T10:22:12Z
dc.date.available1
dc.date.available2017-07-27T10:22:12Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.issn22511865
dc.identifier.urihttps://gnosis.library.ucy.ac.cy/handle/7/37590
dc.description.abstractAny 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.publisherGlobal Science & Technology Forumen
dc.sourceAnnual International Conference on Cognitive & Behavioral Psychologyen
dc.subjectCognitive psychology researchen
dc.subjectBrainen
dc.subjectLogical positivismen
dc.subjectDynamical systemsen
dc.subjectNeural networksen
dc.subjectPhysicalismen
dc.subjectRepresentational contentsen
dc.subjectRepresentational vehiclesen
dc.titleAre Mental Contents Carried by Neural Vehicles?en
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi10.5176/2251-1865_CBP17.19
dc.description.startingpage63
dc.description.endingpage72
dc.author.facultyΣχολή Κοινωνικών Επιστημών και Επιστημών Αγωγής / Faculty of Social Sciences and Education
dc.author.departmentΤμήμα Ψυχολογίας / Department of Psychology
dc.type.uhtypeArticleen
dc.contributor.orcidRaftopoulos, Athanassios [0000-0002-6865-7127]
dc.gnosis.orcid0000-0002-6865-7127


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