Analogue Magnitude Representations
A Philosophical Introduction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8399565 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jacob Beck (0000-0002-2991-3124, York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 829-855 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0882 • E-ISSN: 1464-3537 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjps/axu014 |
| OpenAlex | W2058854362 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 46 |
Empirical discussions of mental representation appeal to a wide variety of representational kinds. Some of these kinds, such as the sentential representations underlying language use and the pictorial representations of visual imagery, are thoroughly familiar to philosophers. Others have received almost no philosophical attention at all. Included in this latter category are analogue magnitude representations, which enable a wide range of organisms to primitively represent spatial, temporal, numerical, and related magnitudes. This article aims to introduce analogue magnitude representations to a philosophical audience by rehearsing empirical evidence for their existence and analysing their format, their content, and the computations they support. 1 Background 1.1 Evidence of analogue magnitude representations 1.2 Weber’s law 1.3 Scepticism about analogue magnitude representations2 Format 2.1 Carey’s analogy 2.2 Neural realization 2.3 Analogue representation 2.4 Analogue magnitude representation components3 Content 3.1 Do analogue magnitude representations have representational content? 3.2 What do analogue magnitude representations represent? 3.3 What content types do analogue magnitude representations have?4 Computations 4.1 Arithmetic computation 4.2 Practical deliberation5 Conclusion
Analogy · Cognition · Linguistics · Magnitude (astronomy) · Mental representation · Realization (probability) · Rehearsing · Representation (politics) · Statistics · Variety (cybernetics) · Artificial Intelligence · Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills · Computer Science · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Psychology
Analog Coordinates
Mental Imagery
La agencia intencional no humana a la luz de razones
The Non-Arbitrary Link between Feeling and Value
Depicting Properties’ Properties
Semantics of Pictorial Space
The precision of content characterizations
The representations of the approximate number system
Computation and cognitive maps
Beyond the icon
Maps, Simulations, Spaces and Dynamics
Softening the Border
Building blocks for a cognitive science-led epistemology of arithmetic
Explicit nonconceptual metacognition
Motoric representational format
The structure of analog representation
The perception/cognition distincton
Compositionality and constituent structure in the analogue mind
Between perception and thought
Skilled Action and the Double Life of Intention
Intelligent action guidance and the use of mixed representational formats
Numerals and neural reuse
Panpsychism and AI consciousness
The Iconic-Symbolic Spectrum
The Imagery Debate Exhumed and Reanimated
Knowledge and the flow of information
Origins of Objectivity
Languages of Art
A theory of magnitude
Biosemantics
Numerical Cognition Without Words
Three Parietal Circuits for Number Processing
The neural basis of the Weber–Fechner law
Exact and Approximate Arithmetic in an Amazonian Indigene Group
Mind and World
Eudoxos and Dedekind
Mental Pictures and Cognitive Science
Cognitive Maps and the Language of Thought
| Citations per year | 2.78 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |