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Title: PG WIP Seminar: Bruce Long
USYD Philosophy Postgraduate Work-In-Progress Seminar
Bruce Long
"ISM: A Low Level Causal-Internalist Informational Theory of Mind and
Mental Representation."
"It is common for philosophers to speak about concepts and conceptual
content, and about propositions and propositional content as having a
relation - or more specifically a cognitive relation - to what an agent
believes or knows. Concepts on some theories are broadly taken to be the
contents of thought, but there are numerous views about how they are
constitued and structured. Some theorists regard concepts as modes of
presentation (for example Fodor Concepts: Where Cognitive Science Went
Wrong, 1998) and there is significant debate about how concepts are
structured. Propositions are said to be whatever it is that is the content
of a linguistic assertion independent of what language or sentence
structure is used to express the assertion, and are also regarded as the
object of thought - that at which doxastic states are directed at or which,
when taken in conjunction with factors such as truth and falsity and mental
assent. I will argue that concepts and propositions and their structures
can and should both be analysed and abstractly modelled (in the scientific
sense of structured representation) in informational terms, and that in
conjunction with a coherent metaphysics of information, this approach
reveals a general ontic basis and explanatory story for the structure of
concepts and propositions, and suggests that both constitute different
abstracta applied to the same informational mechanisms for different
purposes."
Everyone is welcome to attend.
If you would like to present or require further information, please contact
Nick Malpas at [email protected]
The format is 30 minutes for presentations followed by 1 hour of
discussion. Since the primary aim of this seminar is to generate
discussion, presentations need not be particularly polished or formal.
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When: Mon Aug 9 3:30pm – 5pm Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney
Where: Philosophy Common Room (Main Quad, University of Sydney)
Calendar: Postgraduate Events
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