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What Are Mental Representations? PHILOSOPHY OF MIND SERIES series editor: David J. Chalmers, New York University The Conscious Brain The Contents of Visual Experience Jesse Prinz Susanna Siegel Simulating Minds Consciousness and the Prospects The Philosophy, Psychology, and of Physicalism Neuroscience of Mindreading Derk Pereboom Alvin I. Goldman Consciousness and Fundamental Reality Supersizing the Mind Philip Goff Embodiment, Action, and The Phenomenal Basis of Intentionality Cognitive Extension Angela Mendelovici Andy Clark Seeing and Saying Perception, Hallucination, and Illusion The Language of Perception and the William Fish Representational View of Experience Phenomenal Concepts and Berit Brogaard Phenomenal Knowledge Perceptual Learning New Essays on Consciousness and The Flexibility of the Senses Physicalism Kevin Connolly Torin Alter and Sven Walter Combining Minds Phenomenal Intentionality How to Think About George Graham, John Tienson and Composite Subjectivity Terry Horgan Luke Roelofs The Character of Consciousness The Epistemic Role of Consciousness David J. Chalmers Declan Smithies The Senses The Epistemology of Non- Visual Classic and Contemporary Perception Philosophical Perspectives Berit Brogaard and Fiona Macpherson Dimitria Electra Gatzia Attention Is Cognitive Unison What Are Mental Representations? An Essay in Philosophical Psychology Joulia Smortchkova, Krzysztof Dołęga, Christopher Mole and Tobias Schlicht What Are Mental Representations? Edited by JOULIA SMORTCHKOVA, KRZYSZTOF DOŁĘGA, AND TOBIAS SCHLICHT 1 3 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Oxford University Press 2020 All rights reserved. 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Description: New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2020. | Series: Philosophy of mind series | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020015569 (print) | LCCN 2020015570 (ebook) | ISBN 9780190686673 (hardback) | ISBN 9780190686697 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Representation (Philosophy) | Mental representation. Classification: LCC B105.R 4 W44 2020 (print) | LCC B105.R 4 (ebook) | DDC 121/. 68— dc23 LC record available at https://l ccn.loc.gov/ 2020015569 LC ebook record available at https://l ccn.loc.gov/ 2020015570 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed by Integrated Books International, United States of America Contents Preface vii Contributors ix Introduction 1 Joulia Smortchkova, Krzysztof Dołęga, and Tobias Schlicht 1. A Deflationary Account of Mental Representation 26 Frances Egan 2. Defending Representation Realism 54 William Ramsey 3. Deflating Deflationism about Mental Representation 79 Daniel D. Hutto and Erik Myin 4. Representing as Coordinating with Absence 101 Nico Orlandi 5. Reifying Representations 135 Michael Rescorla 6. Situated Mental Representations: Why We Need Mental Representations and How We Should Understand Them 178 Albert Newen and Gottfried Vosgerau 7. Representational Kinds 213 Joulia Smortchkova and Michael Murez 8. Functionalist Interrelations among Human Psychological States Inter Se, Ditto for Martians 242 Nicholas Shea 9. Nonnatural Mental Representation 254 Gualtiero Piccinini 10. Error Detection and Representational Mechanisms 287 Krystyna Bielecka and Marcin Miłkowski Index 319 Preface This volume originates from the conference “Mental Representations: The Foundations of Cognitive Science?,” held at Ruhr-U niversität Bochum (Germany) in September 2015 and organized by Krzysztof Dołęga, Tobias Schlicht, and Joulia Smortchkova. We’re thankful to Joe Dewhurst and Karina Vold for valuable feedback on the introduction and to Andreea Potinteu and Paola Gega for their contribution in the production of the index. We wish to thank all the authors for their effort and patience during the development of this volume. We also would like to thank the reviewers who took their time and energy to make helpful and constructive suggestions for sharpening and clarifying the ideas presented and for improving the chapters. Last but not least, we are grateful to Oxford University Press, represented by Peter Ohlin, for hosting this collection, and to David Chalmers for including this collection in his series and for his support. Krystyna Bielecka, Institute of Philosophy, University of Białystok Contributors Krystyna Bielecka, Institute of Philosophy, University of Białystok Krzysztof Dołęga, Institute of Philosophy II, Ruhr-U niversität Bochum Frances Egan, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University Daniel D. Hutto, Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, School of Liberal Arts, University of Wollongong Marcin Miłkowski, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences Michael Murez, Centre Atlantique de Philosophie, University of Nantes Erik Myin, Department of Philosophy, University of Antwerp Albert Newen, Institute of Philosophy II, Ruhr-U niversität Bochum Nico Orlandi, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Santa Cruz Gualtiero Piccinini, Department of Philosophy and Center for Neurodynamics, University of Missouri, St. Louis William Ramsey, Department of Philosophy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Michael Rescorla, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles Tobias Schlicht, Institute of Philosophy II, Ruhr-U niversität Bochum Nicholas Shea, Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London and Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford Joulia Smortchkova, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford Gottfried Vosgerau, Department of Philosophy, Heinrich- Heine- University Düsseldorf