Year: 2004
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Recent trends in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science can be fruitfully characterized as part of the ongoing attempt to come to grips with the very idea of homo sapiens-an intelligent, evolved, biological agentand its signature contribution is the emergence of a philosophical anthropology which, contra Descartes and his thinking thing, instead puts doing at the center of human being.Applying this agency-oriented line of thinking to the problem of representation, this paper introduces the guidance theory, according to which the content and intentionality of representations can be accounted for in terms of the way they provide guidance for action.We offer a brief account of the motivation for the theory, and a formal characterization.
Authors: Gregg H. Rosenberg, Michael L. Anderson
Institutions: University of Georgia, University of Maryland, College Park
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1602459055