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Model-Based Science and the Representational Theory of Mind
Peter-Godfrey Smith Harvard/ANU
Wed Jan 26, 03-05:00pm, 32-D461

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This paper explores the idea that the representational theory of the mind is better understood as a representational model of the mind, in the sense of 'model' employed by philosophers of science such as Suppes and van Fraassen. The full paper is available at the URL below.
Web: http://philrsss.anu.edu.au/~pgs/Online_papers/PGSonRTM04M.pdf
Contact: Richard Holton, 32-D930, 253-2618, holton@mit.edu
Sponsor: Linguistics and Philosophy
Latest update: 20-Jan-2005


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