Really enjoyed this new paper by Angela Mendelovici about how representationalists can account for the perspectival elements of experience.
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philpapers.org/archive/MENT...
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April 27, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Really enjoyed this new paper by Angela Mendelovici about how representationalists can account for the perspectival elements of experience.
philpapers.org/archive/MENT...
philpapers.org/archive/MENT...
Maybe not logical behaviorists but a lot of anti-representationalists with behaviorist inclinations.
December 10, 2024 at 10:06 PM
Maybe not logical behaviorists but a lot of anti-representationalists with behaviorist inclinations.
The idea is that representation is part of the mechanism, and so sub-personal, rather than the object of perception. So most modern representationalists typically say that we perceive *by* representing things to be thus-and-so, rather than we perceive our representations (à la Hume).
March 11, 2026 at 10:43 AM
The idea is that representation is part of the mechanism, and so sub-personal, rather than the object of perception. So most modern representationalists typically say that we perceive *by* representing things to be thus-and-so, rather than we perceive our representations (à la Hume).
@diovicen.bsky.social apparently I first posted this seven years ago!! Great times in Spain.
July 15, 2026 at 3:33 PM
@diovicen.bsky.social apparently I first posted this seven years ago!! Great times in Spain.
what can i say
representationalists, man
representationalists, man
September 23, 2025 at 3:29 AM
what can i say
representationalists, man
representationalists, man
Hopfield network as the Last Common Ancestor of both Dynamic-non-Representationalists and Network-Connectivists
January 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Hopfield network as the Last Common Ancestor of both Dynamic-non-Representationalists and Network-Connectivists
I feel that your interpretation is closer to the “shapes and forms” than the vast majority of individuals purporting to be “representationalists”. I’m happy to have come across your works, thank you.
April 28, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I feel that your interpretation is closer to the “shapes and forms” than the vast majority of individuals purporting to be “representationalists”. I’m happy to have come across your works, thank you.
It’s a useless posit of a fake difference, a pseudo-distinction required when the representationalists’ simplistic theory crashes against our unsimple world. [3/3]
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schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2025/11/repr...
Representational Realism and the Problem of Tacit Belief
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November 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
It’s a useless posit of a fake difference, a pseudo-distinction required when the representationalists’ simplistic theory crashes against our unsimple world. [3/3]
schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2025/11/repr...
schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2025/11/repr...
Sure, right, but this argument isn’t really pitched at the Dennettian: it’s for those who are genuine representationalists who also think that LLMs are originally intentional systems (in Searle’s sense.) There are a number of those people in the current literature, hence the target.
July 20, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Sure, right, but this argument isn’t really pitched at the Dennettian: it’s for those who are genuine representationalists who also think that LLMs are originally intentional systems (in Searle’s sense.) There are a number of those people in the current literature, hence the target.
EE cognitive science
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Frontiers | Agency From a Radical Embodied Standpoint: An Ecological-Enactive Proposal
Explaining agency is a significant challenge for those who are interested in the sciences of the mind, and non-representationalists are no exception to this....
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August 29, 2024 at 5:03 AM
EE cognitive science
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Today's gym and chores soundtrack. Miguel Segundo-Ortin cashes out how Di Paolo's, adaptive, autopoietic, account of agency needs ecological psych's account of information.
A really nice summary of Di Paolo's account among other things.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIr7...
A really nice summary of Di Paolo's account among other things.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIr7...
Agency from a radical embodied perspective: An ecological-enactive approach
Explaining agency is a major challenge for those who are interested in the sciences of the mind, and non-representationalists are no exception to this. Even ...
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January 24, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Today's gym and chores soundtrack. Miguel Segundo-Ortin cashes out how Di Paolo's, adaptive, autopoietic, account of agency needs ecological psych's account of information.
A really nice summary of Di Paolo's account among other things.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIr7...
A really nice summary of Di Paolo's account among other things.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIr7...
I agree but most atheists are representationalists which logically ends up at the same position as dualism if you take it seriously. Materialism is only coherent as a monoist philosophy if you move beyond representationalism. Feuerbach was the first to point this out.
September 16, 2026 at 5:55 PM
I agree but most atheists are representationalists which logically ends up at the same position as dualism if you take it seriously. Materialism is only coherent as a monoist philosophy if you move beyond representationalism. Feuerbach was the first to point this out.
New Work in Philosophy || “Why representationalists can’t be desire theorists (and vice versa)" - Matthew Kinakin (University of Edinburgh)
https://newworkinphilosophy.substack.com/p/why-representationalists-cant-be
https://newworkinphilosophy.substack.com/p/why-representationalists-cant-be
July 27, 2026 at 2:01 PM
New Work in Philosophy || “Why representationalists can’t be desire theorists (and vice versa)" - Matthew Kinakin (University of Edinburgh)
https://newworkinphilosophy.substack.com/p/why-representationalists-cant-be
https://newworkinphilosophy.substack.com/p/why-representationalists-cant-be
“Why representationalists can’t be desire theorists (and vice versa)" - Matthew Kinakin (University of Edinburgh)
Synthese, 2026
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Synthese, 2026
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“Why representationalists can’t be desire theorists (and vice versa)" - Matthew Kinakin (University of Edinburgh)
Synthese, 2026
newworkinphilosophy.substack.com
July 27, 2026 at 1:01 PM
“Why representationalists can’t be desire theorists (and vice versa)" - Matthew Kinakin (University of Edinburgh)
Synthese, 2026
newworkinphilosophy.substack.com
Synthese, 2026
newworkinphilosophy.substack.com
"In the present dialectical context, the key question is whether anti-representationalists can preserve the explanatory benefits of Bayesian models without invoking representational mental states. I doubt it.
February 2, 2025 at 12:55 PM
"In the present dialectical context, the key question is whether anti-representationalists can preserve the explanatory benefits of Bayesian models without invoking representational mental states. I doubt it.
September 23, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Sun 1 Apr 2012
Philosophy for #Representationalists
#PerceptualExperiences represent the way things are. We can pass this information on in many ways, but most often pass it on using #words and #sentences.
- with #FrankJackson from #ANU
#Language #Representationalism
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Philosophy for #Representationalists
#PerceptualExperiences represent the way things are. We can pass this information on in many ways, but most often pass it on using #words and #sentences.
- with #FrankJackson from #ANU
#Language #Representationalism
#ASPZE_Apr2012
Philosophy for Representationalists - ABC listen
Over four decades, the Gavin David Young Lectures in Philosophy at the University of Adelaide have become a very significant series with many distinguished contributors from across the globe.. This y...
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March 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Sun 1 Apr 2012
Philosophy for #Representationalists
#PerceptualExperiences represent the way things are. We can pass this information on in many ways, but most often pass it on using #words and #sentences.
- with #FrankJackson from #ANU
#Language #Representationalism
#ASPZE_Apr2012
Philosophy for #Representationalists
#PerceptualExperiences represent the way things are. We can pass this information on in many ways, but most often pass it on using #words and #sentences.
- with #FrankJackson from #ANU
#Language #Representationalism
#ASPZE_Apr2012
Even string representationalists will often claim that we need some way of explaining why some representational states (experiences) have phenomenal character and others do not (beliefs). I don’t really see the motivation for this anymore. There’s no deep mystery to solve regarding why experiences
May 25, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Even string representationalists will often claim that we need some way of explaining why some representational states (experiences) have phenomenal character and others do not (beliefs). I don’t really see the motivation for this anymore. There’s no deep mystery to solve regarding why experiences
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Representational Realism and the Problem of Tacit Belief
Eric Schwitzgebel,
The Splintered Mind,
Dec 02, 2025
Does it make sense to treat our beliefs as though they were explicitly represented in the brain? Eric Schwitzgebel offers some arguments that show how this leads to confusion. It's based on what's called 'the problem of tacit belief', where a 'tacit belief' is a belief you have, but which is not explicitly represented (for example, that there are fewer that 2,342,609 beers in the fridge). Representationalists will say that these are derived from 'core beliefs', but what counts as a 'core belief'? "But the distinction has no practical importance, doesn't map onto ordinary patterns of belief attribution, and has no empirical support." Why does this matter? Think of all the (pseudo-)theories of education based on 'belief' as a distinct state of mind or brain. That's why.
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...and exactly the kind of trickery which becomes very difficult if one enforces linguistic and conceptual hygiene, as he calls it. Which is why he insists upon that hygiene and proper definitions, and also (one suspects) why representationalists often do not like that insistence.
January 22, 2025 at 9:22 AM
...and exactly the kind of trickery which becomes very difficult if one enforces linguistic and conceptual hygiene, as he calls it. Which is why he insists upon that hygiene and proper definitions, and also (one suspects) why representationalists often do not like that insistence.
(also yes I know there are other representationalists/realists working out there, but McNaughton is prolific and successful not the least because he hitched his business to Trump and opened a market of people who otherwise aren't really interested in buying new art)
January 14, 2025 at 1:37 PM
(also yes I know there are other representationalists/realists working out there, but McNaughton is prolific and successful not the least because he hitched his business to Trump and opened a market of people who otherwise aren't really interested in buying new art)
To anti-representationalists - or representationalist-questioners - are we closing in on what a representation IS?
March 15, 2024 at 1:34 PM
To anti-representationalists - or representationalist-questioners - are we closing in on what a representation IS?