Volume 51 No. 4 (Winter 1984)
Arien Mack, Editor
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REPRESENTATION Volume 51 No. 4 (Winter 1984) Arien Mack, Editor |
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Among the persistent problems in philosophy, the problem of mind or the nature of the construction of our experienced world certainly has a secure place. Its salience may wax and wane but it endures, and at this moment it has once again come to occupy center stage. In its current guise, it is labeled the problem of representation. (Its centrality is attested to by the fact that a scholarly journal has recently appeared entitled Representation.) The problem of representation is by no means of interest only to philosophers. It now engages the attention of a much broader community of scholars, including psychologists, art historians, linguists, computer scientists, literary critics, and anthropologists.
The authors who have written for this issue were asked several questions that were intended to clarify how the problem is currently construed. They were asked to explain what they take the problem to be, why they think it is important, and why certain formulations and solutions to the problem seem more compelling than others. My hope was that, after reading through the pieces in this issue, the reader would come away with a better understanding of the current thinking about the cluster of problems that constitute the problem of representation and why it is of interest to so diverse a group of scholars. I think this hope has been realized.
Table of Contents
| JULIAN HOCHBERG |
The Perception of Pictorial Representations |
| MARX W. WARTOFSKY |
The Paradox of Painting: Pictorial Representation
and the Dimensionality of Visual Space |
| JOHN M. KENNEDY |
How Minds Use Pictures |
| CATHERINE Z. ELGIN |
Representation, Comprehension, and Competence |
| ROM HARRE |
Some Reflections on the Concept of "Social
Representation" |
| SERGE MOSCOVICI |
The Myth of the Lonely Paradigm: A Rejoinder |
| JEROME BRUNER |
Pragmatics of Language and Language of Pragmatics |
| DAVID PREMACK |
Comparing Mental Representation in Human
and Nonhuman Animals |
| ARTHUR C. DANTO |
Outline of a Theory of Sentential States |
| STEPHEN M. KOSSLYN AND GARY HATFIELD |
Representation Without Symbol Systems |
| ROBERT SCHWARTZ |
"The" Problems of Representation |
| ROBERT J. MATTHEWS |
Troubles with Representationalism |
Notes on Contributors
(at time of publication)
Julian Hochberg is Centennial Professor of Psychology at Columbia University and author of Perception (2nd ed. 1978).
Marx W. Wartofsky is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His most recent book is Models: Representation and the Scientific Understanding (1979).
John M. Kennedy is Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto.
Catherine Z. Elgin is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She wrote With Reference to Reference (1983).
Rom Harre Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford, is currently Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York--Binghamton. His latest book is Personal Being (1983).
Serge Moscovici Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, is the author of L'Age des Foules (1981).
Jerome Bruner is George Herbert Mead University Professor at the New School for Social Research. His latest book is the autobiographical In Search of Mind (1984).
David Premack is Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent book, with A. J. Premack, is The Mind of an Ape (1983).
Arthur C. Danto is Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. His most recent book is The Transfiguration of the Commonplace (1981).
Stephen M. Kosslyn is Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. His most recent book is Ghosts in the Mind's Machine (1983).
Gary Hatfield is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Johns Hopkins University.
Robert Schwartz is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee.
Robert J. Matthews is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University.
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