In this provocative study, Robert Cummins takes on philosophers, both old and new, who pursue the question of mental representation as an abstraction, apart from the constraints of any particular theory or framework. Cummins asserts that mental representation is, in fact, a problem in the philosophy
On Meaning and Mental Representation: A Pragmatic Approach
✍ Scribed by Wolff-Michael Roth (auth.)
- Publisher
- SensePublishers
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 227
- Series
- New Directions in Mathematics and Science Education 1
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-x
Frontispiece....Pages 1-1
Language «meaning», «mental representation», and «conceptions» in STEM research....Pages 3-20
«Meaning» in science education....Pages 21-38
Hunting the elusive tiger....Pages 39-68
«Meaning» and the subject....Pages 69-98
Culturing «conception»....Pages 99-141
The language of real life and the real life of language....Pages 143-167
The documentary method....Pages 169-186
The documentary method and «mental representation»....Pages 187-201
Epilogue....Pages 203-207
Back Matter....Pages 209-223
✦ Subjects
Education (general)
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