{"id":1136,"date":"2019-10-24T12:46:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T12:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/cmc\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2019-12-03T14:21:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T14:21:59","slug":"1136","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/cmc\/2019\/10\/24\/1136\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Representations in a Mechanical World. The State of the Debate in Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>28.-29.11.2019, RUB, Veranstaltungszentrum, Saal 4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This workshop investigates the status of representations in a mechanical account of the mind and cognition.&nbsp;One core question&nbsp;<\/strong>will  be whether the status of neural and mental representation is equally  problematic. While sub-personal phenomena seem to be less resistant to  mechanistic explanation, many personal-level mental phenomena seem to be  \u201crepresentation hungry\u201d. The burden of argument seems to be on the side  of the mechanists to show how to explain these phenomena without  invoking mental representations. <strong>A second core question&nbsp;<\/strong>concerns  the relationship between neural and mental representations. It is often  assumed that the former are needed to account for the latter. However,  naturalising neural representations, and accounting for their  explanatory utility in a mechanistic neuroscience proves difficult. How  intertwined are beliefs and desires with neural representations? Do they  only come together, or is a conceptual repertoire including one but not  the other a coherent possibility?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Organisation: <\/strong>Matej Koh\u00e1r, Dr. Beate Krickel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Financial support:&nbsp;<\/strong>RUB Research School, funded by Germany\u2019s Excellence Initiative [DFG GSC 98\/3], <a href=\"http:\/\/www.situated-cognition.com\/\">RTG \u201cSituated Cognition\u201d<\/a>, Prof. Dr. Albert Newen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28.-29.11.2019, RUB, Veranstaltungszentrum, Saal 4 This workshop investigates the status of representations in a mechanical account of the mind and cognition.&nbsp;One core question&nbsp;will be whether the status of neural and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"pub_author":[],"post_folder":[197],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/cmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/cmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/cmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/cmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/cmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/cmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1227,"href":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/cmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions\/1227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/cmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/cmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/cmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/cmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"pub_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/cmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pub_author?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/cmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}