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Dewey and Anti-Representationalism [PDF]

Synthese, 2018
John Dewey is often portrayed as a critic of “representationalist” views in epistemology and the philosophy of mind. Despite writing in a different context, Dewey’s position is indeed similar to some recent forms of anti-representationalism. Some of his central arguments in this area suffer from the use of false dichotomies: the fact that we wish to ...
Haselager, W.F.G., Groot, A.D. de, Rappart, J.F.H. van   +2 more
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Disclaiming anti-representationalism about pain

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
According to the so-called representational theories of pain, pains are mental states that represent some bodily disturbance. A common argument presented against such theories is that, because many cases of pain are idiopathic (i.e., they are ...
Veronica Campos, Daniel De Luca-Noronha
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CORRESPONDENCE AGAIN? INTERNAL REALISM AND THRUTH

Problemos, 1998
The paper deals with the relation between realism and (neo)pragmatism in the contemporary philosophy of science by investigating two rival positions: Ilkka Niiniluoto’s "critical scientific realism" and Hilary Putnam’s "internal realism." The crucial ...
Sami Pihlström
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Decoding intelligence via symmetry and asymmetry

Scientific Reports
Humans use pictures to model the world. The structure of a picture maps to mind space to form a concept. When an internal structure matches the corresponding external structure, an observation functions.
Jianjing Fu, Ching-an Hsiao
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Enacting anti-representationalism. The scope and the limits of enactive critiques of representationalism [PDF]

Avant, 2014
I propose a systematic survey of the various attitudes proponents of enaction (or enactivism) entertained or are entertaining towards representationalism and towards the use of the concept “mental representation” in cognitive science.
Pierre Steiner
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Empirical Problems With Anti-Representationalism

, 2014
Bence Nanay
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Neopragmatism and speculative realism [PDF]

Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность", 2020
The article deals with neopragmatist themes of contingency, irony and solidarity in the context of the contemporary movement in continental philosophy, speculative realism.
A. V. Morozov
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Double Vision, Phosphenes and Afterimages: Non-Endorsed Representations rather than Non-Representational Qualia

European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2020
Pure representationalism or intentionalism for phenomenal experience is the theory that all introspectible qualitative aspects of a conscious experience can be analyzed as qualities that the experience non-conceptually represents the world to have.
Işık Sarıhan
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Muzak, Lo-Fi, and Acoustic Violence

Journal of Extreme Anthropology, 2023
Violence, including acoustic violence, can be remarkably resistant to critique; the semiotic structures upon which scholarly arguments rely may appear, in their representationalism, to have a distancing effect from the sheer materialism of violence and ...
Nic Vigilante
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The Body Surpassed Towards the World and Perception Surpassed Towards Action: A Comparison between Enactivism and Sartre’s Phenomenology

Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2020
Enactivism maintains that the mind is not produced and localized inside the head but is distributed along and through brain-body-environment interactions.
Federico Zilio
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