[CogSci] [WEBINAR] Ruth Millikan, 7 February: Neural Mechanisms Online

[Fabrizio Calzavarini]

Neural Mechanisms Online(website)
7 February 2020
Webinar
15-17 Greenwhich Mean Time (check your local time here)
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Ruth MILLIKAN(University of Connecticut)
Mental Representation made simple

Contrary to current rumors that there is something suspicious about the notion of mental representation, I am persuaded that the description of “intentional icons” and of “representations” first presented in my Language, Thought and Other Biological Categories (1984) captures a central and also a remarkably simple causal-explanatory principle that is involved in the workings of perception, cognition and language. So I am going to return to this description, highlighting its outlines to bring out its simplicity and also, I hope, the obviousness and innocuous nature of this principle. I will add a few words about "intensionality" and why it is irrelevant to the naturalization of mental representation.

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10 January, 3-5 pm (GMT)
Manolo MARTINEZ
(Assistant Professor, University of Barcelona, Spain)

****24 January, 3-5 pm (GMT)
Frances EGAN
(Full Professor, Rutgers University, USA)

****7 February, 3-5 pm (GMT)
Ruth MILLIKAN
(Emeritus Professor, University of Connecticut, USA)

****21 February, 3-5 pm (GMT)
Marcin MIŁKOWSKI
(Associate Professor, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)

****6 March, 3-5 pm (GMT)
William RAMSEY
(Full Professor, University of Nevada, USA)

****20 March, 3-5 pm (GMT)
Zina WARD
(PhD Candidate, University of Pittsburgh, USA)

****10 April, 2-4 pm (GMT)
Adina ROSKIES
(Full Professor, Dartmouth College, USA)

****24 April, 2-4 pm (GMT)
Brendan RITCHIE
(Post Doc, KU Leuven, Belgium)

****8 May,  2-4 pm (GMT)
Russ POLDRACK
(Full Professor, Standford University, USA)

****22 May,  2-4 pm (GMT)
Rosa CAO
(Assistant Professor, Standford University, USA)

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