Concept
Mental representation
Overview
hypothetical internal cognitive symbol that represents external reality
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Philosophers who discussed Mental representation
- Kazimierz Twardowski
- Karl Leonhard Reinhold
- René Girard
- Jerry Fodor
- David Papineau
- Language of thought hypothesis
- Andy Clark
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Franz Brentano
- Gualtiero Piccinini
- Michel Henry
Related ideas
- Empiricism
- Idea
- Intentionality
- Metaphysics
- Neuroscience
- Explanation
- Ontology
- Observation
- Syntax
- Semantics
- Abstraction
- Thomas Hobbes
- Tool
- Supervenience
- Experimental psychology
- Symbol
- Jerry Fodor
- Reality
- Steven Pinker
- Subject and object (philosophy)
- Hippocampus
- Cognitive science
- Episodic memory
- Cognitive psychology
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
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