Cognitive representation is the single most important explanatory notion in thesciences of the mind and has served as the cornerstone for the socalledcognitive ... » 

Cognitive representation is the single most important explanatory notion in thesciences of the mind and has served as the cornerstone for the socalledcognitive revolution. This book critically examines the ways in whichphilosophers and cognitive scientists appeal to representations in theirtheories and argues that there is considerable confusion about the nature ofrepresentational states. This has led to an excessive overapplication of thenotion 8211 especially in many of the newer theories in computationalneuroscience. Representation Reconsidered shows how psychological research isactually moving in a nonrepresentational direction revealing a radicalthough largely unnoticed shift in our basic understanding of how the mindworks. «