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Investigating Neural Representations:The Tale of Place Cells
mechanistic explanations representations spatial navigation place cells grid cells
2016/6/12
While neuroscientists often characterize brain activity as representational, many philosophers have construed these accounts as just theorists’ glosses on the mechanism. Moreover, philosophical discus...
Reflexive,Symmetric and Transitive Scientific Representations
Reflexive Symmetric Transitive Scientific
2016/5/31
Theories of scientific representation, following Chakravartty's categorization, are divided into two groups. Whereas cognitive-functional views emphasize agents' intentions, informational theories str...
Scientific Representations as Limiting Cases
scientific representation idealization abstraction scientific models
2016/5/30
In this essay, I shall show that the so-called inferential (Suárez 2003 and 2004) and interpretational (Contessa 2007) accounts of scientific representation are respectively unsatisfactory and too wea...
Individual Drawings and Collective Representations Perceptions of Death Among Kaiowá Youth
Individual Drawings Collective Representations
2009/11/27
This article explores some of the sentiments that may explain the phenomenon of suicide among young indians in Mato Grosso du Sul, Brazil. By asking a group of young people to envision "death" by mean...
Abstract Representations and Confirmation
applications of mathematics abstraction confirmation
2009/6/11
Many philosophers would concede that mathematics contributes to the abstractness of some of our most successful scientific representations. Still, it is hard to know what this abstractness really come...
Realism about Structure: The Semantic View and Non-linguistic Representations
Realism structure representation Newman
2008/4/22
The central concern of this paper is whether the Semantic Approach to theories has the resources to appropriately capture the core tenets of structural realism. Chakravartty, for example, has argued t...
Seeking Representations of Phenomena: Phenomenological Models
Models Phenomenological Models Theories Idealization
2008/4/22
I argue that phenomenological modeling can be better understood as a process that abides by theoretical constraints which are in constant interplay with experimentally determined results and progressi...
This paper evaluates a general argument for the conclusion that visual representations in science must play the role of truth bearers if they are to figure as legitimate components of scientific argum...
Complementarity of representations in quantum mechanics
complementarity Bohr canonical commutation relations
2008/4/10
We show that Bohr's principle of complementarity between position and momentum descriptions can be formulated rigorously as a claim about the existence of representations of the CCRs. In particular, i...
Being ourselves and knowing ourselves: An adverbial account of mental representations
autopoiesis evolution phenomenal experience
2008/4/10
This paper takes an evolutionary approach to what we are, namely autopoietic systems with a first person perspective on our surroundings and ourselves. This in contrast with Thomas Metzinger’s views i...
Using Representations of Space to Study Early Modern Physical Science: An Example of Philosophy in the Service of History
representation of space conceptual framework historiography
2008/3/31
Most historians of science eagerly acknowledge that the early modern period witnessed a shift from a prevailing Aristotelian, spherical, centered conception of space to a prevailing Cartesian, rectili...
Using Representations of Space to Study Early Modern Physical Science: An Example of Philosophy in the Service of History
representation of space conceptual framework historiography
2011/9/8
Most historians of science eagerly acknowledge that the early modern period witnessed a shift from a prevailing Aristotelian, spherical, centered conception of space to a prevailing Cartesian, rectili...
Semiotic representations: Building complex literacy practices through the arts
Semiotic representations arts
2014/6/12
English studies should include translations from one
sign system to another as an essential part of the cur-
riculum. These should include translating words into
action—”acting out” scenes from sto...