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Meaning Representationalism: between Representationalism and Qualia Realism

Grazer 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 ...
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Do babies represent? On a failed argument for representationalism

Synthese, 2022
Giovanni Rolla
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Coreference and Representationalism

2000
The compositional interpretation of structures in discourse has raised the question whether some level of representation is indispensable in the analysis of the semantics of natural language. In this paper we formulate and motivate three notions of representationalism (a strong, a medium or midweak, and a weak one) and discuss to what extent existing ...
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Representationalism and Panpsychism

2021
Abstract A solution is offered to the paradox presented in Chapter 1. This solution requires us to embrace a qualified form of panpsychism for consciousness, or rather for a key element of consciousness I call “consciousness*”. Consciousness, I claim, is inherently representational and did indeed evolve.
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Levels of representationality

Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 1998
Abstract. The dominant assumptions throughout contemporary philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence about the ontology underlying intentionality, and its core of representationality, are those of encodings-some sort of informational or correspondence or covariation relationship between the represented and its ...
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Representationalism and cognitive culturalism: riders on elephants on turtles all the way down

American Journal of Cultural Sociology, 2020
Jason L. Mast
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Rosenthal's Representationalism

Balkan Journal of Philosophy
In this paper I discuss Rosenthal’s theory of consciousness. Being in a conscious state, according to his view, consists in having an appropriate higher order mental representation – a higher order thought (HOT) about a lower order non-conscious state.
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Restrictions on Representationalism

Philosophical 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.
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Representationalism and Blindsight

Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 2016
According to representationalism, phenomenal character supervenes on representational content. According to first-person reports, blindsighters have no phenomenal character in the scotoma, even though their abilities suggest that they have conscious visual representations in the scotoma.
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Implications of Intensional Perceptual Ascriptions for Relationalism, Disjunctivism, and Representationalism About Perceptual Experience

, 2019
D. Bourget
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