Paul Churchland (1942), Canadian philosopher of mind and neurophilosopher. His major works include Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind (1979), A Neurocomputational Perspective: The Nature of Mind and the Structure of Science (1989), and The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul: A Philosophical Journey into the Brain (1995). His fields of specialization are neurophilosophy, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of neuroscience.
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Representation, philosophy: representations are adopted internal conditions, such as visual imaginations or linguistic completions, which set in as associations or are possibly developed by reconstruction. In a wider sense, sentences, words, and symbols are representations within a character system. See also truth maker, idea, sentences, propositions, intensions, correspondence, speech act theory._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. |