Mental representation and causal explanation.
Mental causation has been a concern in the philosophy of mind since Descartes. Intuitively, thoughts are causes of behavior, and they are causes of behavior in virtue of their mental properties. The computational theory of mind views thoughts as symbol tokenings, and thus as causes. However, if the...
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The University of Arizona.
1990
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185312 |