PPT-Causal Theories of Mental Representation

recap Metasemantics A theory of mental representation tells us Why in virtue of what do mental representations have the contents they do rather than some other content or no content at all. A. Concept . Formation (September . 14, 16). 1. Frankfort-. Nachmias. . & . Nachmias. (Chapter 2 – Conceptual Foundations of Research). 2. . Gerring. . (Chapters 3-4. ). Application. between . normative (philosophical/ computational) . theories of causation and empirical research on causal . cognition. . Jim Woodward. HPS, Pittsburgh. Causality: Perspectives from Different Disciplines. recap. Kripke’s Picture. “Someone. , let’s say, a baby, is born; his parents call him by a certain . name. They . talk about him to their friends, . other . people meet him. . Through various sorts . Does Bell’s theorem prevent the use of causal explanations in quantum mechanics?. Part I:. Locality, Bell’s version of locality, and its discontents. The greatest mystery in science?. Locality. = “things do not go faster than . Elena Popa. Children’s causal learning and evidence.. Causation, intervention, and Bayes nets.. The conditional intervention principle and Woodward’s concept of an intervention.. Conclusions: Connecting causality and evidence with intervention – causal learning.. THE MENTAL REPRESENTATION OF INFLECTED WORDS: This model posits a special status to the base form or nucleus. Some experimental evidence supports this view. Lukatela et al. (1978, 1980) showed, for ex Mental Health and Disability. Representation of Issues: Mental Health. Looking at the representation of issues is trickier than looking at the representation of groups of people or events. You are analysing how the media represents an idea. . Part I. Vehicle vs. Content. Small [horse picture]. [Small horse] picture. Vehicle vs. Content. Representational vehicles are the things that represent (we can just call them representations: words, maps, photos, beliefs.. Cause, Causatives, and Theories of Causation. Julian Reiss, Durham. Background. Main concern: Provide a satisfactory account of causation in the sciences. My own work focuses on the biomedical and social sciences. Lectures for the Brain & Mind Programme, . Faculty of Medicine, . University of Crete. Keith Frankish. image credit: m01229 (CC BY 2.0). Lecture 3, Part 1. The MIND AS A COMPUTER. Image credit. ThE. Dr Steven Stillman. Senior Fellow, Motu . Adjunct Professor of Economics, Waikato. NIDEA Theme Leader, New Zealand’s individuals, families and households. Launch Symposium, November 24. th. 2010. The Importance of Experimental Evidence . : A Mechanist Perspective. Stuart Glennan. Butler . University. The singularist and generalist view of causation. The. generalist view: Particular events are causally related because they fall under general laws. : A Mechanist Perspective. Stuart Glennan. Butler . University. The singularist and generalist view of causation. The. generalist view: Particular events are causally related because they fall under general laws. The Absurdity of Fit. In one sense, all the views we’ve considered in class so far are views on which meaning is a type of “fit.” On the idea theory, meanings (connotations) are ideas. Ideas have a certain .