Peter Schulte: Där strukturalism om mental representation går fel
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Onsdag 23 oktober, 2024kl. 13:15 - 15:00
HUM.H.119 (HD108)
Högre seminariet i filosofi bjuder in till seminarium med Peter Schulte. Seminariet ges på engelska och har den engelska titeln “Where Structuralism About Mental Representation Goes Wrong: Putting Structural Similarity in Its Place”.
Abstract (på engelska): Structuralism has emerged in recent decades as one of the leading theories of representation. The core idea of structuralism is that the content of representational states is grounded in a relation of second-order similarity between mind and word – a relation standardly called “structural similarity”. In this talk, I first distinguish between two major version of structuralism that are often conflated. I then argue that neither of these versions is tenable, and suggest an alternative, “subsidiary” role for structural similarity in the explanation of representational content.