Moral Philosophy and Mental Representation
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چکیده
Let me begin with a bit of autobiography. I am, by profession, a teacher of philosophy. Year in and year out, for the last fifteen or twenty years, I have taught a large undergraduate course on contemporary moral issues issues like abortion, euthanasia, reverse discrimination, genetic engineering, and animal rights. Over the years, I have written a handful of papers on some of these topics. However, most of my research and writing has been in a very different domain. It has been concerned with problems in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of psychology. During the last decade, much of my work has been on the philosophical foundations of cognitive science, and I have spent a great deal of time thinking and writing about the nature of mental representation.
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