Category: Egan: Deflating Mental Representation

Brains Blog precis of Deflating Mental Representation  In the book I propose what I call a deflationary account of mental representation, characterized by three claims:  (1) Construing a mental (or neural) state as a representation does not presuppose a special, substantive relation (or relations) – what we can call a representation relation – holding between the state and what the representation is about, for example, the …

Join us this week for our first event of the year, another fantastic book symposium!  This time, we have Frankie Egan discussing her new book, Deflating Mental Representation.  We have three great commentaries from Oron Shagrir, Caitlin Mace and Adina Roskies, and Mazviita Chirimuuta, along with responses from Frankie.  Feel free …