Representational parts

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 1 (4):389-394 (2002)
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Abstract

In this reply we claim that, contra Dreyfus, the kinds of skillful performances Dreyfus discusses _are_ representational. We explain this proposal, and then defend it against an objection to the effect that the representational notion we invoke is a weak one countenancing only some global state of an organism as a representation. According to this objection, such a representation is not a robust, projectible property of an organism, and hence will gain no explana- tory leverage in cognitive scientific explanations. We argue on conceptual and empirical grounds that the representations we have identified are not weak unprojectible global states of organisms, but instead genuinely explanatory representational parts of persons

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Pete Mandik
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Skill and spatial content.Rick Grush - 1998 - Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy 6 (6).
Qualia, space, and control.Pete Mandik - 1999 - Philosophical Psychology 12 (1):47-60.

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