Representing as Coordinating with Absence
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This chapter offers an account of mental representation that spells out the conditions for representational status. I argue that we should draw a distinction between issues concerning content and issues concerning representational role, and that the challenge of understanding representational role is at least as pressing as the more familiar challenge of giving an account of content. I then argue that we should understand representational role in terms of serving as a stand-in, and use the idea of structural isomorphism, with examples from animal cognition and from the literature on analog representation, to capture standing-in.
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Vol 67
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pp. 5-18
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2015 ◽
Vol 62
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pp. 198-205
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