Abstract Wilfrid Sellars’ denunciation of the Myth Given was meant to clarify, against empiricism, that perceptual episodes alone are insufficient ground and justify knowledge. Sellars showed in order accomplish such epistemic tasks, more resources capacities, as those involved using concepts, needed. Perceptual knowledge belongs space reasons not an independent realm experience. Dan Hutto Eric...

One of the debates surrounding the advent of discourse representation theory (DRT, [37]) and file change semantics (FCS, [35]) had to do with the issue of representationalism. Should we assume the representation structures to say something about what goes on in the mind of the interpreter, or not. On this issue, the followers of the Montague tradition tend to have strongly antimentalist views. ...

In this paper, I analyze a type of externalist enactivism defended by Riccardo Manzotti. Such radical versions of enactivism are gaining more attention, especially in cognitive science and cognitive robotics. They are radical in that their notion of representation is purely referential, and content is conflated with reference. Manzotti follows in the footsteps of early causal theories of refere...

The paper problematizes roles and positions of women artists consumers through the complex processes spectacle. question women?s body is related to questioning gender on performative level, with aim emphasize existing paradigms (as sexuality, dimorphism, dominations subordinations, phalogocentric spaces), but also make constructive options in sphere popular music subculture (ambivalence, equiva...

An influential strand within Science and Technology Studies (STS) rejects the idea that science produces representations referring to objects or processes exist independently of it. This radical ‘turn’ has been framed as ‘constructionist’, ‘nominalist’, more recently ‘ontological’. Its central argument is constructs enacts rather than represents. Since most practitioners believe it involves rep...

Issues connected to the pair of notions image and reality have been present in philosophy at least since Plato’s times. The main question that accompanies mentioned concerns relation between reality. Does adequately, or is it perhaps a sort falsification? However, this may no sense, because, as claimed for example by Richard Rorty, there possibility differentiate An interesting exemplification ...

Abstract In this article the authors identify and analyse points of agreement disagreement between Michael Ayers Charles Travis, starting from their views on ‘things before us’. The then try to spell out what separates these philosophers in matters concerning perception, knowledge language. spite both being self-professed realists, equally critical conceptualism representationalism, Ayers’ empi...