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Robinson Erhardt
86 - Frances Egan: Mental Representation and Psychological Explanation
1 hour 35 minutes Posted May 7, 2023 at 3:30 pm.
In This Episode…
Introduction
Frankie and the Philosophy of Mind
The Foundations of Cognitive Science
What are Mental Representations?
Eliminativism and Representations
A Deflationary Account
Naturalism and Cognitive Science
Psychological Explanation
The Extended Mind and Embodied Cognition
The New Mechanists
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Frances Egan is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers, where she works on the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of psychology, and the foundations of cognitive science. Recently she has been researching computational models of cognition and how they relate to representation. Robinson and Frankie talk about the foundations of cognitive science and the nature of mental representations before discussing psychological explanation, different ways of conceiving the mind’s boundaries, and how it interfaces with the rest of the body and environment.
Frankie’s Website: https://frances-egan.org/index.html
Mental Representation: https://plato.stanford.edu/ENTRIES/mental-representation/
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