First mention of ‘content/vehicle’ distinction?

The conceptual distinction between representational vehicles and representational contents is very old, probably older than Plato. Lately, however, I’ve been wondering when the first use of this actual terminology emerged. Pete Mandik took time out from hammering brains to tell me he thinks the first use of this terminology might …

Challenging Neuroscience to Explain Cognition

C, R, Gallistel and A. P. King, Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science Will Transform Neuroscience, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. This is a rich and thought-provoking book.  I cannot do it justice in a brief post so I apologize in advance for that. Roughly speaking, the book argues that (1) many …

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