A naturalistic account of mental representation

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Aytekin, Tevfik

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My thesis is an attempt to develop a naturalistic account of mental representation based on the notion of causation. The thesis consists of two main parts. The first part (chapters II and III) develops an understanding of naturalization. According to my proposal, naturalization is a two-step process: in the first step a set of conditions is specified which are thought to be the essential aspects of the notion under study and in the second step a naturalistic system is proposed which is claimed to satisfy these conditions. In accordance with this understanding of naturalization, the second part (chapters IV and V) of the thesis sets out the conditions which a successful naturalization of mental representation has to satisfy and then develops a new naturalistic account of mental representation based on the causal connections between environmental properties and the brain.

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Intentionality., naturalization.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/17215

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T. Aytekin, “A naturalistic account of mental representation,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2007.