Mental representation

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In contemporary philosophy, specifically in fields of metaphysics such as philosophy of mind and ontology, a mental representation is one of the prevailing ways of explaining and describing the nature of ideas and concepts. According to the representational theory of mind , thinking occurs within an internal system of representation. The propositional attitudes of the mind are token mental representations (i.e., mental particulars with semantic properties.) The other major prevailing philosophical theory posits that concepts are abstract objects.^[1]

[edit] References

^ The Ontology of Concepts—Abstract Objects or Mental Representations?, Eric Margolis and Stephen Laurence

v • d • e Philosophy of language

Related articles:	Analytic philosophy • Language • Philosophy of information • Philosophical logic • Linguistics • Pragmatics • Rhetoric • Semantics • Formal semantics • General semantics • Semiotics

Concepts in language	Ambiguity • Linguistic relativity • Meaning • Language • Truthbearer • Proposition • Use–mention distinction • Concept • Categories • Set • Class • Intension • Logical form • Metalanguage • Mental representation • Principle of compositionality • Property • Sign • Sense and reference • Speech act • Symbol • Entity • Sentence • Statement • more...

Theories of language	Causal theory of reference • Contrast theory of meaning • Contrastivism • Conventionalism • Cratylism • Deconstruction • Descriptivist theory of names • Direct reference theory • Dramatism • Expressivism • Linguistic determinism • Logical atomism • Logical positivism • Mediated reference theory • Nominalism • Non-cognitivism • Phallogocentrism • Quietism • Relevance theory • Semantic externalism • Semantic holism • Structuralism • Supposition theory • Symbiosism • Theological noncognitivism • Theory of descriptions • Verification theory

Philosophers of language	Plato (Cratylus) • Confucius • Xun Zi • Aristotle • Stoics • Pyrrhonists • Scholasticism • Thomas Hobbes • Gottfried Leibniz • Johann Herder • Wilhelm von Humboldt • Fritz Mauthner • Paul Ricoeur • Ferdinand de Saussure • Gottlob Frege • Franz Boas • Paul Tillich • Edward Sapir • Leonard Bloomfield • Zhuangzi • Henri Bergson • Ludwig Wittgenstein (Philosophical Investigations • Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus) • Bertrand Russell • Rudolf Carnap • Jacques Derrida (Of Grammatology • Limited Inc) • Benjamin Lee Whorf • Gustav Bergmann • J. L. Austin • Noam Chomsky • Hans Georg Gadamer • Saul Kripke • Alfred Jules Ayer • Donald Davidson • Paul Grice • Gilbert Ryle • P. F. Strawson

Portal · Category · Task Force · Discussion · Changes

v • d • e Philosophy of mind

Related articles:	Metaphysics • Philosophy of artificial intelligence • Philosophy of information • Philosophy of perception •

Concepts in mind	Abstract object • Artificial intelligence • Chinese room • Cognition • Concept • Concept and object • Consciousness • Idea • Identity • Ingenuity • Intelligence • Intentionality • Introspection • Intuition • Language of thought • Materialism • Mental events • Mental image • Mental functions • Mental property • Mental representation • Mind • Mind-body dichotomy • Pain • Problem of other minds • Propositional attitude • Qualia • Self • Tabula rasa • Understanding • more...

Theories of mind	Behaviourism • Biological naturalism • Dualism • Eliminative materialism • Emergent materialism • Epiphenomenalism • Functionalism • Identity theory • Interactionism • Materialism • Mind-body problem • Monism • Naïve realism • Neutral monism • Phenomenalism • Phenomenology (Existential phenomenology) • Physicalism • Pragmatism • Property dualism • Representational theory of mind • Solipsism • Substance dualism • Type physicalism •

Philosophers of mind	J. L. Austin • Henri Bergson • Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya • C. D. Broad • Daniel Dennett • Dharmakirti • Donald Davidson • René Descartes • Alvin Goldman • Martin Heidegger • Edmund Husserl • William James • Søren Kierkegaard • Gottfried Leibniz • Maurice Merleau-Ponty • Marvin Minsky • George Edward Moore • Thomas Nagel • Karl Popper • Richard Rorty • Gilbert Ryle • John Searle • Baruch Spinoza • Alan Turing • Vasubandhu • Zhuangzi • more...

Portal · Category · Task Force · Discussion · Changes