Structural and indicator representations: a difference in degree, not kind

Autor: Gregory Nirshberg, Lawrence A. Shapiro
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Synthese. 198:7647-7664
ISSN: 1573-0964
0039-7857
Popis: Some philosophers have offered structural representations as an alternative to indicator-based representations. Motivating these philosophers is the belief that an indication-based analysis of representation exhibits two fatal inadequacies from which structural representations are spared: such an analysis cannot account for the causal role of representational content and cannot explain how representational content can be made determinate. In fact, we argue, indicator and structural representations are on a par with respect to these two problems. This should not be surprising, we contend, given that the distinction between indicator and structural representations is better conceived as one involving degree rather than kind.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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