Madness Rather Than Method. Remarks on Paweł Gładziejewski’s" Wyjaśnianie za pomocą reprezentacj mentalnych (Explaining with Mental Representations)" Cover Image

Szaleństwo, a nie metoda. Uwagi o książce Pawła Gładziejewskiego "Wyjaśnianie za pomocą reprezentacji mentalnych"
Madness Rather Than Method. Remarks on Paweł Gładziejewski’s" Wyjaśnianie za pomocą reprezentacj mentalnych (Explaining with Mental Representations)"

Author(s): Marcin Miłkowski
Subject(s): History of Philosophy, Philosophical Traditions, Special Branches of Philosophy
Published by: Uniwersytet Warszawski - Wydział Filozofii i Socjologii, Instytut Filozofii
Keywords: representationalism; mechanism; structural representations; detectors; semantic information

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, I argue that, in his account of representational mechanisms, Paweł Gładziejewski should not defend the strong claim that only structural representations are genuinely representational. In particular, his reliance on Ramsey’s typology of representations has led him astray. Moreover, one of the conditions that representational mechanisms are supposed to fulfill is, in its original formulation, too strong and excludes biologically plausible scenarios. Instead, a more pluralist account is suggested.

  • Issue Year: 25/2017
  • Issue No: 3 (99)
  • Page Range: 57-67
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish