Understanding Representation in the Cognitive Sciences

Does Representation Need Reality?

By: Alexander Riegler (Editor), Markus Peschl (Editor), Astrid von Stein (Editor)

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urrently a paradigm shift is occurring in for the conventional understanding of represen- which the traditional view of the brain as tions. The paper also summarizes the rationale for C representing the "things of the world" is the selection of contributions to this volume, which challenged in several respects. The present volume will roughly proceed from relatively "realist" c- is placed at the edge of this transition. Based on the ceptions of representation to more "constructivist" 1997 conference "New Trends in Cognitive Sci- interpretations. The final chapter of discussions, ence" in Vienna, Austria, it tries to collect and in- taped during and at the end of the conference, p- grate evidence from various disciplines such as p- vides the reader with the possibility to reflect upon losophy of science, neuroscience, computational the different approaches and thus contributes to b- approaches, psychology, semiotics, evolutionary ter and more integrative understanding of their biology, social psychology etc. , to foster a new thoughts and ideas. understanding of representation. The subjective experience of an outside world This book has a truly interdisciplinary character. It seems to suggest a mapping process where environ- is presented in a form that is readily accessible to mental entities are projected into our mind via some professionals and students alike across the cognitive kind of transmission. While a profound critique of sciences such as neuroscience, computer science, this idea is nearly as old as philosophy, it has gained philosophy, psychology, and sociology.

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Does Representation Need Reality?	p. 9
Overview of Contributions	p. 19
The Connectionist Route to Embodiment and Dynamicism	p. 23
The Ontological Status of Representations	p. 33
Empirical and Metaphysical Anti-Representationalism	p. 39
Representation in Cognitive Neuroscience	p. 49
Cognition without Representation?	p. 57
On Computing Systems and Their Environment	p. 75
Representation and Cognitive Explanation	p. 83
When Coffee Cups Are Like Old Elephants, or Why Representation Modules Don't Make Sense	p. 93
The Recommendation Architecture: Relating Cognition to Physiology	p. 101
Neurodynamics and the Revival of Associationism in Cognitive Science	p. 115
The Dynamic Manifestation of Cognitive Structures in the Cerebral Cortex	p. 121
Response Selectivity, Neuron Doctrine, and Mach's Principle in Perception	p. 127
Mental Representations: A Computational-Neuroscience Scheme	p. 135
Sketchpads In and Beyond the Brain	p. 143
Inductive Learning with External Representations	p. 147
Does the Brain Represent the World? Evidence Against the Mapping Assumption	p. 161
Perception Through Anticipation. A Behaviour-Based Approach to Visual Perception	p. 169
Rethinking Grounding	p. 177
Reality: A Prerequisite to Meaningful Representation	p. 191
Explorations in Synthetic Pragmatics	p. 199
Does Semantics Need Reality?	p. 209
Empiricism and Social Reality: Can Cognitive Science Be Socialized?	p. 219
Habitus and Animats	p. 229
Processing Concepts and Scenarios: Electrophysiological Findings on Language Representation	p. 237
Constructivist Consequences: Translation and Reality	p. 247
The Observer in the Brain	p. 253
Reality and Representation. Qualia, Computers, and the "Explanatory Gap"	p. 257
Can a Constructivist Distinguish between Experience and Representation?	p. 269
How Animals Handle Reality - The Adaptive Aspect of Representation	p. 277
Piaget's Legacy: Cognition as Adaptive Activity	p. 283
Discussions of Representation and Constructivism	p. 289
Subject Index	p. 301
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