Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Strategy Representation: An Analysis of Planning Knowledge describes an innovative methodology for investigating the conceptual structures that underlie human reasoning. This work explores the nature of planning strategies--the abstract patterns of planning behavior that people recognize across a broad range of real world situations. With a sense of scale that is rarely seen in the cognitive sciences, this book catalogs 372 strategies across 10 different planning domains: business practices, education, object counting, Machiavellian politics, warfare, scientific discovery, personal rela

Mental representation. --- Planning. --- Reasoning (Psychology)

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

What is it for something in the mind to represent something? Robert Cummins looks at the familiar problems of representation theory (what information is represented in the mind, what form mental representation takes, how representational schemes are implemented in the brain, what it is for one thing to represent another) from an unprecedented angle. Instead of following the usual procedure of defending a version of "indicator" semantics, Cummins begins with a theory of representational error and uses this theory to constrain the account of representational content. Thus, the problem of misrepresentation, which plagues all other accounts, is avoided at the start. Cummins shows that representational error can be accommodated only if the content of a representation is intrinsic - independent of its use and causal role in the system that employs it. Cummins's theory of error is based on the teleological idea of a "target," an intentional concept but one that differs importantly from that of an ordinary intentional object. Using this notion he offers a schematic theory of representation and an account of propositional attitudes that takes exception with some popular positions, such as conceptual role semantics, Fodor's representational theory of the mind, and Putnam's twin-earth examples.

Philosophical anthropology --- Theory of knowledge --- Representation (Philosophy) --- Mental representation --- Philosophy & Religion --- Philosophy --- Representation, Mental --- Representationalism (Philosophy) --- Representationism (Philosophy) --- Abstraction --- Perception --- Culture --- Mental representation.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

It is supposed to be common knowledge in the history of ideas that one of the few medieval philosophical contributions preserved in modern philosophical thought is the idea that mental phenomena are distinguished from physical phenomena by their intentionality, their directedness toward some object. As is usually the case Other such commonplaces about the history of ideas, especially those concerning medieval ideas, this claim is not quite true. Medieval philosophers routinely described ordina...

Mental representation --- Logic, Medieval --- Ontology --- Medieval logic --- Representation, Mental --- Abstraction --- Perception

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Eine systematische Neubewertung der transzendentalen Phänomenologie Husserls vor der Folie aktueller Diskussionen in der Philosophie des Geistes steht unerachtet einiger neuerer Annäherungsversuche bislang aus. Die Arbeit lotet die Möglichkeiten, aber auch die methodologischen Grenzen eines solchen Brückenschlages aus. In detaillierten Analysen werden dabei gravierende konzeptuelle und metatheoretische Äquivokationen zwischen der phänomenologischen und den (sprach-)analytischen bzw. kognitivistischen Modellen des Mentalen aufgeklärt. Kritisch fokussiert werden insbesondere repräsentationalistische Projekte der Naturalisierung des phänomenalen und intentionalen Bewusstseins, neuere Selbstbewusstseinstheorien sowie Husserls Sonderstellung gegenüber der semantischen und geisttheoretischen Internalismus/Externalismus- und der Realismus/Anti-Realismus-Debatte. Die Studie zeigt so das deskriptive und explanatorische Potenzial von Husserls Bewusstseinstheorie auf und präsentiert die Phänomenologie als ernstzunehmende Diskussionspartnerin nicht nur der Philosophie des Geistes und der Kognition, sondern auch der analytischen Sprachphilosophie und Erkenntnistheorie.

Intentionality (Philosophy) --- Phenomenology. --- Mental representation. --- Representation, Mental --- Abstraction --- Perception --- Philosophy, Modern --- Act (Philosophy) --- Mind and body --- Philosophy --- Husserl, Edmund, --- Husserl, Edmund --- Husserl, Edmond --- Phenomenology --- Mental representation --- Husserl, Edmund, - 1859-1938 --- Husserl, Edmund. --- Intentionality. --- cognition. --- consciousness. --- phenomenology.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This book clarifies a thorny and knotty problem that has interfered with clear thinking among psychoanalysts for over 70 years. It provides a rigorous examination of the views, theories and contributions of psychoanalysts since their initial appearance, to very mixed acclaim, among the experimental psychoanalysts who were struggling professionally in war-torn London in the early 1940s. Extensive details of the data and their analysis have been included so that the scientific basis of the work's conclusion may be understood and appreciated. Psychoanalysis is replete with theories, but not so much evidence. This book, however, produces evidence for scrutiny and, as such, provides new evidence-based knowledge about psychoanalytic phenomena in everyday life as it is commonly understood, and which is not derived from "research on the couch". The conclusions drawn in the book include the new knowledge that mental representations and internal objects do both occur in everyday life and can co-exist.

Mental representation --- Object relations (Psychoanalysis) --- Object relations theory (Psychoanalysis) --- Psychoanalysis --- Interpersonal relations --- Representation, Mental --- Abstraction --- Perception --- Social aspects.