Misrepresentation and mental appearance

The Problem of Consciousness: Mental Appearance and Mental Reality

Reliable Misrepresentation and Teleosemantics

Mendelovici (forthcoming) has recently argued that (1) tracking theories of mental representation (including teleosemantics) are incompatible with the possibility of reliable misrepresentation and that (2) this is an important difficulty for them. Furthermore, she argues that this problem commits teleosemantics to an unjustified a priori rejection of color eliminativism. In this paper I argue t...

Misrepresentation in District Voting

Voting systems in which voters are partitioned to districts encourage accountability by providing voters an easily identifiable district representative, but can result in a selection of representatives not representative of the electorate’s preferences. In some cases, a party may have a majority of the popular vote, but lose the elections due to districting effects. We define the Misrepresentat...

Misrepresentation by ophthalmology residency applicants.

OBJECTIVES To determine the percentage of publication misrepresentation among applicants to an ophthalmology residency, to compare that percentage with published percentages from other specialties, and to compare the number of US-trained applicants vs non-US-trained applicants found to misrepresent published articles. METHODS Published articles in peer-reviewed journals listed on residency ap...

Medicine and the media--misrepresentation of interview.

Sir, In your new feature 'Medicine and the Media' (8th July, p. 121) you mention my contribution to what you considered a muddled feature on the hazards of jogging in Tonight (BBC 1, 28 June). Perhaps the inside story may be of help to some of your readers as an example of what happens to the naive clinician when faced with the media. I am tending now very strongly to the view that the producer...