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Representationalism and Anti-Representationalism About Perceptual Experience [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Many philosophers have held that perceptual experience is fundamentally a\ud matter of perceivers being in particular representational states. Such states are\ud said to have representational content, i.e. accuracy or veridicality conditions,\ud capturing the way that things, according to that experience, appear to be.
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Novel metaphor and conceptual stability Metáfora nova e estabilidade conceptual

open access: yesDELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2006
This paper discusses three radically different approaches to the issue of novel metaphor: the classic view, according to which metaphor is itself defined by its novelty with respect to our established conceptual systems; the cognitivist view, in which ...
Helena Martins
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COULD WE SEE PROPERTIES OF A HIGH ORDER?

open access: yesДискурс, 2017
The article is devoted to analysis of philosophical and methodological aspects of contemporary representationalism. The theory of Susanna Siegel was chosen as the investigation subject.
A. I. Ponomarev
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Predictive coding and representationalism [PDF]

open access: yesSynthese, 2015
According to the predictive coding theory of cognition (PCT), brains are predictive machines that use perception and action to minimize prediction error, i.e. the discrepancy between bottom–up, externally-generated sensory signals and top–down, internally-generated sensory predictions. Many consider PCT to have an explanatory scope that is unparalleled
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Double Vision, Phosphenes and Afterimages: Non-Endorsed Representations rather than Non-Representational Qualia

open access: yesEuropean 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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REPRESENTATIONALISM AND SENSORY MODALITIES: AN ARGUMENT FOR INTERMODAL REPRESENTATIONALISM [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Philosophical Quarterly, 2017
Abstract Intermodal representationalists hold that the phenomenal characters of experiences are fully determined by their contents. In contrast, intramodal representationalists hold that the phenomenal characters of experiences are determined by their contents together with their intentional modes or manners of representation, which are ...
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The Commitment to Inference

open access: yesSententiae, 2019
In this conversation, American philosopher Robert Brandom talks about the historical background of his inferentialism, reconstructing the influence of his teachers Wilfrid Sellars and Richard Rorty.
Robert B. Brandom, Ivan Ivashchenko
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Realism without representationalism [PDF]

open access: yesSynthese, 2019
AbstractScientific realism is a critical target of anti-representationalists such as Richard Rorty and Huw Price, who have questioned the very possibility of providing a satisfactory argument for realism or any other ontological position. I will argue that there is a viable form of realism which not only withstands this criticism but is vindicated on ...
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Rorty’s socio-ethnocentrism: the problem of its justification

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2020
‘Solidarity’ is one of the key concepts of the late Richard Rorty’s philosophy. Arguing that justification of knowledge is a matter of its acceptance by the community, Rorty reduces social relations to the discursive (intertextual or dialogical) ones ...
Igor D. Dzhokhadze
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Rorty's Kant, or On the Majority of Age of Epistemology [PDF]

open access: yesIdeas y Valores, 2008
This article shows the general guidelines of the rortyan lecture of Kant, focused in his role as the highest representative of the conversion of philosophy in epistemology, and also some criticism to that lecture.
José María Filgueiras
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