Mental Representation

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Mental Representation
David Pitt, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2020/01/28
This is a substantive revision of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's entry on mental representation. I won't say a lot about it here, except to say that this is (by and large) a theory I believe to be incorrect. I am definitely in the minority here, though. The representational theory of mind (RTM) "takes as its starting point commonsense mental states, such as thoughts, beliefs, desires, perceptions and imagings". More...