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    "pk": 31773,
    "title": "Content in Computation",
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    "abstract": "Examining the philosophical foundations of theories\nin computational psychology, and cognitive science in\ngeneral, is a methodology that is likely to yield strong\nresults to problems in the philosophy of mind. O n e\nsuch problem is the problem of intentionality. A n\nintentional property is semantic: it has parts which\nrefer or are true. T h e problem is to explain w h y these\nproperties are empirically, and hence causally,\nrespectable. A s in all special, \"non-basic\" sciences, an\nempirically respectable property has sufficient\nconditions for its instantiation. But specifying such\nconditions for the intentional properties used by\ncomputational psychology proves difficult, since\napparently neither physical nor computational identity\nare enough. A solution is proposed by examining in\nsome detail the computational theory of vision. A key\nelement of this theory requires that the intentional\nproperties attributed to representations are constrained\nby considering the later computational uses to which\nthese representations must be put. This constraint is\nstrong enough to yield sufficient conditions for a given\nrepresentation to have a given intentional property.\nSince analogous constraints are likely to be found in\nother cognitive d o m a i n s , the result argued for\nconstitutes an important methodological a n d\nphilosophical insight about cognitive science in\ngeneral.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "section": "Submitted Presentations",
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            "first_name": "Daniel",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Seymour",
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            "institution": "City University of New York Graduate Center",
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    "date_published": "1993-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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