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elisafreschi.bsky.social
A conference on perception in Vienna next week:

www.oeaw.ac.at/ikga/veranst...

(zoom participation is possible)
#philsky #Sanskrit
What do we perceive? Direct realism, representationalism, idealism and illusionism in South Asian philosophy
International Symposium
www.oeaw.ac.at
October 1, 2026 at 2:28 PM
yaleclassicslib.bsky.social
What do we perceive? Direct realism, representationalism, idealism and illusionism in South Asian philosophy
| International Symposium Oct. 7 to 9 @oeaw.bsky.social & online www.oeaw.ac.at/ikga/veranst... @elisafreschi.bsky.social
What do we perceive? Direct realism, representationalism, idealism and illusionism in South Asian philosophy
International Symposium
www.oeaw.ac.at
October 1, 2026 at 3:14 PM
solomonrmissouri.com
Granted ... he is uniquely equipped to speak to *looks around*

all of this ...

and perhaps the calculus of representationalism kinda moves because "president" is not just a job... it's THE job in American political life
June 23, 2026 at 4:40 PM
mmilkowski.bsky.social
Excited to share our new paper in Synthese, "Representationalism and Rationality: Why Mental Representation is Real", co-authored with Krystyna Bielecka (@KrystynaBieleck). https://rdcu.be/dHgbZ

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May 8, 2024 at 8:32 AM
quiltydunn.bsky.social
very compelling argument for representationalism about psychology and antirepresentationalism about neuroscience
March 6, 2026 at 12:33 AM
louistonehill.bsky.social
And you just don't get a good painting of a monarch without representationalism. It isn't Done
September 26, 2026 at 10:19 PM
naturalism.bsky.social
In his Dennett Prize lecture, Nick Humphrey says he's an illusionist but methinks his phenomenal realism says otherwise.

@keithfrankish.com @lovingautomaton.bsky.social

twc3.substack.com/publish/post...
Why Nick Humphrey Is Not an Illusionist
Representationalism about consciousness points beyond physicalism.
twc3.substack.com
October 2, 2026 at 1:00 PM
sexabolition.blog
Trans scientists are fallible and science is more than representationalism, facts matter and Jaime Raines did transmisogynist research to prove a point about his dick.

But the wider principle that a community should be funded as legitimate actors in scientific research about itself remains.
foxdie.bsky.social Foxdie @foxdie.bsky.social · Jan 24
Not all trans scientists though! 🫠
January 24, 2025 at 11:36 PM
histphilosophy.bsky.social
Coming up tomorrow on #HoPWaG: the debate between Malebranche and Arnauld on the "vision in God": how we form our ideas. This turns out to be an early version of the contemporary debate over representationalism.

#philsky #philosophy #earlymodern #epistemology #podcast
April 18, 2026 at 10:40 AM
dervine7.bsky.social
when you ask someone to draw a dollar bill from memory you get something that isn’t even a *degraded* version of the visual image but does preserve certain abstract properties with perfect fidelity. this is somehow evidence *against* representationalism
March 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
vlc-lab.bsky.social
👤Adam Pautz (Brown University): Some Varieties of Representationalism about Consciousness

#ValenciaPhilosophyLabSummerConference
June 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
huwprice.bsky.social
A new piece about Rorty, Davidson, and Brandom – click through to PhilPapers for the abstract. #philsky #pragmatism

philpapers.org/rec/PRITHM-2
Huw Price, The Hand-Made Mirror: Rorty, Davidson, and Brandom - PhilPapers
In Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (PMN) Rorty opposes representationalism about mind and language, and interprets Davidson as an ally. Yet Davidson insists that language and thought depend on spe...
philpapers.org
March 31, 2025 at 10:37 PM
uibgender.bsky.social
🌟 New article
👥 @romaddox.bsky.social, guest researcher at SKOK @unibergen.bsky.social
👉 Representationalism and the impossibility of autistic transgender identification
📗 Culture, Theory and Critique @tandfresearch.bsky.social
🌈🎓 #GenderSky #AutRes #OpenAccess
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Representationalism and the impossibility of autistic transgender identification
The ‘trans debates' have proliferated widely, and autism is frequently brought into these discussions. Autism researchers have begun to explore the perceived over-representation of autistic people ...
www.tandfonline.com
April 21, 2026 at 11:53 AM
maxeart.bsky.social
These smaller canvases are a lot of fun and very relaxing to paint; the limitation of size removes the obligation of representationalism.

#blue #art #acrylic #painting #abstract #abstractscape #water

Acrylic on Canvas 8"×10" [fs]
Poem of whimsy Reflecting on reflections Portentous and blue
November 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
philipgoff.bsky.social
In his PhD, Gaurav defended a novel form of representationalism, which combined Aristotle with the Indian classical philosophy of Nyāya. etheses.durham.ac.uk/id/eprint/16...
etheses.durham.ac.uk
July 30, 2026 at 10:31 AM
louistonehill.bsky.social
We often talk about style in terms of abstraction vs representationalism/realism, in western media (and certainly in western design classes), but because manga as a medium has already abandoned colour and realism, the style design becomes much more about clarity of genre
May 24, 2025 at 8:49 PM
splectrum.world
Whitehead dismantles the inside/outside line. Rorty walks out of the room. Two rejections of representationalism, same relational core — different axes.
splectrum.world/blog/2026/05/two-pronged-anti-representationalism/
#philosophy #Whitehead #Rorty
Two-Pronged Anti-Representationalism
Whitehead and Rorty reject representationalism from the same relational core but along different axes — one ontological, one epistemological. What would it take to unite them?
splectrum.world
May 28, 2026 at 5:18 AM
elisafreschi.bsky.social
Interesting conference on #perception in #SanskritPhilosophy (zoom participation is possible, but you have to register):

www.oeaw.ac.at/ikga/veranst...
What do we perceive? Direct realism, representationalism, idealism and illusionism in South Asian philosophy
International Symposium
www.oeaw.ac.at
September 21, 2026 at 10:29 AM
edbaggs.bsky.social
The real question: What comes after post-anti-representationalism?
January 28, 2026 at 11:46 AM
eruditorumpress.com
I wouldn’t say “alone,” and I’d probably broaden to “representationalism,” but I’m willing to assert it as a necessary condition
February 19, 2026 at 2:58 AM
tom-effing-paine.bsky.social
"Cartoon" is right; this guy believes the cartoon version of Cartesian representationalism and needed 1. an introduction to philosophy and/or 2. a swift kick in the ass.
December 1, 2025 at 1:35 AM
ywcath.bsky.social
On the one hand, this toothache is awful and it is keeping me up all night. On the other hand, it is quite interesting (and slightly pain distracting) to introspect it whilst thinking about transparency and representationalism, and illusionism etc. Who says philosophy is useless?
January 28, 2026 at 2:23 PM
klingley.bsky.social
...as part of the composition, rather than as something imposed on/over the composition, something added later. I'm inclined to think of them in the latter sense. The inscription on a painting interrupts its illusionism (or its representationalism, anyway, since illusionism is rarely the point);
April 27, 2026 at 1:36 AM
ptrbck.bsky.social
I provide the pragmatist perspective. I start from Rouse's distinction between the "practice"-reading of Kuhn and the "theory"-reading. We then discuss spectator theory of knowledge, anti-representationalism (Dewey), Cartesian Anxiety (Bernstein), tacit knowledge (Polanyi) and knowing-how (Ryle)
September 19, 2026 at 9:35 PM
neurostats.org
Yes I think the representationalism in phil.neuro is sort of distinct from what practical neuroscientists were doing. One was making certain theoretical commitments but the other was simply methodological representationalism. But somehow all these things were so mixed up, esp. in 2011-2015
January 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM