The Research Seminar Series in Philosophy invites you to a seminar with Peter Schulte, "Representational Explanations and the Epiphenomenalism Objection".
Abstract: Representational explanations are central to contemporary cognitive science. But how do these explanations work? What are their main explananda, and what is their characteristic mode of explanation? In the first part of my talk, I will sketch what I take to be the most promising answers to these questions. In the second part, I then show how an adequate conception of representational explanations can help to refute the well-known “epiphenomenalism objection” against standard naturalistic theories of representation.
All interested are welcome to this meeting.
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