Abstract / Description of output
What is the relationship between information and representation? Dating back at least to Dretske (1981), an influential answer has been that information is a rung on a ladder that gets one to representation. Representation is information, or representation is information plus some other ingredient. In this paper, I argue that this approach oversimplifies the relationship between information and representation. If one takes current probabilistic models of cognition seriously, information is connected to representation in a new way. It enters as a property of the represented content as well as a property of the vehicles that carry that content. This offers a new, conceptually and logically distinct way in which information and representation are intertwined in cognition.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 591-611 |
| Journal | Review of Philosophy and Psychology |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Early online date | 17 May 2019 |
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| Publication status | Published - Sept 2020 |
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Mark Sprevak
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences - Senior Lecturer
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