Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1160512 | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A | 2010 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
The computational theory of mind construes the mind as an information-processor and cognitive capacities as essentially representational capacities. Proponents of the view (hereafter, ‘computationalists’) claim a central role for representational content in computational models of these capacities. In this paper I argue that the standard view of the role of representational content in computational models is mistaken; I argue that representational content is to be understood as a gloss on the computational characterization of a cognitive process.
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Authors
Frances Egan,