Philosopher Ned Block argues in this book that there is a" joint in nature" between
perception and cognition and that by exploring the nature of that joint, one can solve …

Mental representations remain the central posits of psychology after many decades of
scrutiny. However, there is no consensus about the representational format (s) of biological …

To believe something, as contemporary analytic philosophers generally use the term
“belief,” is to take it to be the case or regard it as true. In this sense, many of our beliefs are …

The language of thought hypothesis (LOTH) proposes that thinking occurs in a mental
language. Often called Mentalese, the mental language resembles spoken language in …

In this article, we explore various arguments against the traditional distinction between
episodic and semantic memory based on the metaphysical phenomenon of transitional …

Our ordinary talk is rife with “framing devices”: expressions that function, not just to
communicate factual information, but to suggest an intuitive way of thinking about their …

From the point of view of urban agents, the city can be seen as an information system. In this
article, we focus on the city as an information structure insofar as it is an experiential context …

In this chapter, we start by spelling out three important features that distinguish expressives–
utterances that express emotions and other affects–from descriptives, including those that …

It is common to distinguish two great families of representation. Symbolic representations
include logical and mathematical symbols, words, and complex linguistic expressions. Iconic …

One popular doctrine in 20th-century philosophy was conceptualism about perception. The
core idea was that perceptual awareness is structured by concepts possessed by the …