{"pk":26116,"title":"Representation: Problems and Solutions","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The current orthodoxy in cognitive science, what I describe as\na commitment to deep representationalism, faces intractable\nproblems. If we take these objections seriously, and I will\nargue that we should, there are two possible responses: 1. We\nare mistaken that representation is the locus of our cognitive\ncapacities — we manage to be the successful cognitive agents\nin some other, non-representational, way; or, 2. Our\nrepresentational capacities do give us critical cognitive\nadvantages, but they are not fundamental to us qua human\nbeings. As Andy Clark has convincingly argued, anti-\nrepresentationalism, option one, is explanatorily weak.\nConsequently, I will argue, we need to take the second option\nseriously. In the first half of the paper I rehearse the problems\nwith the current representational view and in the second half of\nthe paper I defend and give a positive sketch of a two-systems\nview of cognition – a non-representational perceptual system\ncoupled with a representational language-dependent one – and\nlook at some consequences of the view.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"representation; representation-hungry problem;\nconsciousness; animal cognition; perception; two-systems"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4t04p3jf","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Nancy","middle_name":"","last_name":"Salay","name_suffix":"","institution":"Queen's University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26116/galley/15752/download/"}]}