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Restrictions on Representationalism

open access: yesPhilosophical Studies, 2007
Strong representationalism claims that the qualitative character of our phenomenal mental states consists in the intentional content of such states. Although strong representationalism has greatly increased in popularity over the last decade, I find the view deeply implausible.
Kind, Amy
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Ambiguous figures and representationalism

SynthÈse, 2010
Macpherson (Nous 40(1):82–117, 2006) argues that the square/regular diamond figure threatens representationalism, construed as the theory which holds that the phenomenal character is explained by the nonconceptual content of experience. Her argument is the claim that representationalism is committed to the thesis that differences in the experience of ...
Athanassios Raftopoulos
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Meaning Representationalism: between Representationalism and Qualia Realism [PDF]

open access: yesGrazer Philosophische Studien, 2016
The purpose of this article is to offer a new view of the key relation between the content and the conscious character of visual experience. The author aims to support the following claims. First, the author rejects the qualia realist claim that conscious character is an intrinsic, nonrepresentational property of visual experience, for example, a ...
Roberto Horácio, da Sá Pereira
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Representationalism about Consciousness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Discusses recent work on representationalism, including: the case for a representationalist theory of consciousness, which explains consciousness in terms of content; rivals such as neurobiological type-type identity theory (Papineau, McLaughlin) and ...
Adam Pautz
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Rosenthal’s Representationalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
David Rosenthal explains conscious mentality in terms of two independent, though complementary, theories—the higher-order thought (“HOT”) theory of consciousness and quality-space theory (“QST”) about mental qualities.
Jacob Berger, Richard Brown
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Empirical Problems with Anti-Representationalism

open access: yes, 2014
The aim of this paper is to raise some serious worries about anti-representationalism: the recently popular view according to which there are no perceptual representations.
Bence Nanay, Nanay Bence
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Representationalism and Non-representationalism

2015
What kind of a subject is historiography? Is it a science, an art form, a craft or a unique practice of its own kind? And what is the point of doing historiography? These questions are important because the answers in part determine what historians should aim at producing and achieving.
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Representationalism and Non-representationalism in Historiography

Journal of the Philosophy of History, 2013
Abstract This paper examines how Hayden White and specifically Frank Ankersmit have attempted to develop the representationalist account of historiography. It is notable that both reject the copy theory of representation, but nevertheless commit to the idea that historiography produces representations. I argue that it would have been more advantageous
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Isomorphism and representationalism

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2003
Lehar tries to build a computational theory that succeeds in offering the same computational model for both phenomenal experience and visual processing. However, the vision that Lehar has about isomorphism in Gestalttheorie as representational, is not adequate.
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