Abstract (may include machine translation)
Cognitive neuroscientists frequently talk about the brain representing the world. Some philosophers claim that this is a confusion. This paper argues that there is no confusion, and outlines one thing that ‘the brain represents the world’ might mean, using the notion of a model derived from the philosophy of science. This description is then extended to make apply to propositional attitude attributions. A number of problems about propositional attitude attributions can be solved or dissolved by treating propositional attitudes as models.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 253-270 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement |
| Volume | 76 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2015 |
| Externally published | Yes |