title: Mental Representations: the New Sense-Data?
creator: Stieg, Chuck 
subject: Philosophy of Mind
subject: Philosophy of Science
subject: Epistemology
subject: Metaphysics
subject: Cognitive Psychology
description: The notion of representation has become ubiquitous throughout cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience and the cognitive sciences generally. This paper addresses the status of mental representations as entities that have been posited to explain cognition.  I do so by examining similarities between mental representations and sense-data in both their characteristics and key arguments offered for each.  I hope to show that more caution in the adoption and use of representations in explaining cognition is warranted.  Moreover, by paying attention to problematic notions of representations, a less problematic sense of representation might emerge.  
date: 2004
type: Other
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: other
identifier: http://cogprints.org/6174/1/Mental_Reps_and_Sense_Data_Cog_P.doc
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/6174/2/Mental_Reps_and_Sense_Data_Cog_P.pdf
identifier:   Stieg, Chuck   (2004) Mental Representations: the New Sense-Data?     (Unpublished)  
relation: http://cogprints.org/6174/