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Representationalism and the determinacy of visual content [PDF]

, 2015
DETERMINACY is the claim that covert shifts in visual attention sometimes affect the determinacy of visual content (capital letters will distinguish the claim from the familiar word, 'determinacy').
Bronner, Ben
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Beyond data as representation: The performativity of Big Data in surveillance

Surveillance & Society, 2016
The article discusses problems of representative views of data and elaborates a concept of the performativity of data. It shows how data used for surveillance contributes in creating suspect subjectivities.
Tobias Matzner
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Representationalism and anti-representationalism about perceptual experience [PDF]

, 2013
Many philosophers have held that perceptual experience is fundamentally a matter of perceivers being in particular representational states. Such states are said to have representational content, i.e. accuracy or veridicality conditions, capturing the way that things, according to that experience, appear to be.
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The Ontological Importance of Being a Perceptual Attitude

Organon F, 2020
Current philosophical debates about perception have largely ignored questions concerning the ontological structure of perceptual experience, so as to focus on its intentional and phenomenological character. To illustrate and put pressure on this tendency,
Sebastián Sanhueza Rodríguez
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Is the Free-Energy Principle a Formal Theory of Semantics? From Variational Density Dynamics to Neural and Phenotypic Representations

Entropy, 2020
The aim of this paper is twofold: (1) to assess whether the construct of neural representations plays an explanatory role under the variational free-energy principle and its corollary process theory, active inference; and (2) if so, to assess which ...
Maxwell J. D. Ramstead, Karl J. Friston, Inês Hipólito   +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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How Naive Is Contentful Moral Perception?

Philosophies, 2023
According to contentful moral perception (CMP), moral properties can be perceived in the same sense as tables, tigers, and tomatoes. Recently, Heather Logue (2012) has distinguished between two potential ways of perceiving a property. A Kantian Property (
Preston J. Werner
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Representationalism

, 2022
Abstract Chapter 1 introduces and defends a representationalist account of perceptual experience, maintaining that experience constitutively involves representations of external phenomena. The chapter also argues for a teleosemantic theory of perceptual representation, according to which the representational contents of perceptual ...
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Russellian Representationalism and the Stygian Hues [PDF]

, 2022
Representationalism is today the leading physicalist theory of the phenomenal character of perceptual experience. And Russellian representationalism, which identifies contents with extensions, is the leading iteration of that theory.
Sharp, William A., William A. Sharp
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Novel metaphor and conceptual stability Metáfora nova e estabilidade conceptual

DELTA: 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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