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The Measure of Mind provides a sustained critique of a widely held
representationalist view of propositional attitudes and their role
in the production of thought and behaviour. On this view, having a
propositional attitude is a matter of having an explicit
representation that plays a particular causal/computational role in
the production of thought and behaviour. Robert J. Matthews argues
that this view does not enjoy the theoretical or the empirical
support that proponents claim for it; moreover, it misconstrues the
role of propositional attitude attributions in cognitive scientific
theorizing. He then goes on to develop an alternative
measurement-theoretic account of propositional attitudes and the
sentences by which we attribute them. On this account, the
sentences by which we attribute propositional attitudes function
semantically like the sentences by which we attribute a quantity of
some physical magnitude (e.g., having a mass of 80 kilos). That is,
in much the same way that we specify a quantity of some physical
magnitude by means of its numerical representative on a measurement
scale, we specify propositional attitudes by means of their
representatives in a linguistically-defined measurement space.
The Measure of Mind provides a sustained critique of a widely held
representationalist view of propositional attitudes and their role
in the production of thought and behavior. On this view, having a
propositional attitude is a matter of having an explicit
representation that plays a particular causal/computational role in
the production of thought and behavior. Robert J. Matthews argues
that this view does not enjoy the theoretical or the empirical
support that proponents claim for it; moreover, the view
misconstrues the role of propositional attitude attributions in
cognitive scientific theorizing.
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