An independent, empirical route to nonconceptual content.

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The overall goal of this paper is to offer an independent, empirical route to characterize the content on nonconceptual content. I pursue a recent move by Pylyshyn, a leading cognitive scientist and philosopher of mental representation, who focuses on empirical considerations in favor of nonconceptual representations. Pylyshyn proposes a minimalist view of nonconceptual representations. I offer empirical reasons that force us to go beyond minimalist account and reinstate empirically defensible richer nonconceptual representations into a theory of content.

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Author/s: Chadha, Monima (M);

Affiliation: School of Philosophy and Bioethics, Monash University, Clayton Campus, P.O. Box 11A, Victoria 3800, Australia. Monima.Chadha(-atsign-)arts.monash.edu.au

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Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Consciousness and cognition (Conscious Cogn), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2009-Jun; vol 18 (issue 2) : pp 439-48

Dates: Created 2009/05/11; Completed 2009/07/30;

PMID: 19345116, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 8/20/2009, IMS Date: )

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