In this paper we present a context-based family of formal systems (called MultiContext Systems) which we propose to use as a formal framework for a theory of mental representation. We start with an intuitive notion of context as a subset of the complete (cognitive) state of an individual. Then we introduce two general principles which we believe are at the core of any logic of context, namely t...

We identify a surprising discrepancy in children's performance in two tasks which appear superficially to require handling of the same properties of the representational mind. Four- to six-year-olds made judgements about the knowledge of a protagonist who had only partial information about an object: the child knew that an object in a box had two descriptions, X and Y (e.g. dice and eraser), bu...

What is the form of mental representation? One very influential contemporary answer to this question starts from the assumption that the brain functions like a Turing machine. This assumption, which is basically a metaphor, provides the foundation for much theoretical speculation in cognitive science and related fields. According to one version of the computer metaphor, the atoms of mental repr...

Teams are important for organizational work but coordinating teamwork is not always easy. Oftentimes members are separated by time or geographic distance, thus making coordination even more difficult. Recent research suggests that teams develop shared mental models about the task and each other, which helps them develop mutual explanations and expectations about the task environment, thus helpi...

Many have urged that the biggest obstacles to a physicalistic understanding of consciousness are the problems raised in connection with the subjectivity of consciousness. These problems are most acutely expressed in consideration of the knowledge argument against physicalism. I develop a novel account of the subjectivity of consciousness by explicating the ways in which mental representations m...

In this paper it is argued that it is legitimate to talk about mental imagery, and thus, to claim that spatial information is coded in an analogue mode. Evidence from research with blind people indicate that they can perform mental rotation and that analogue spatial cognition does not depend on visual information. It is therefore proposed that, if the blind can perform mental rotation in an ana...

Diagrams are uniquely powerful tools of communication. Diagrams or pictures are the oldest medium of human communication. ey are used for representation as well as for certain types of reasoning. Representation is contained in our thought. ought has evolved through ages. It is generally believed that thought functions through language. However, there is no natural language in the brain but just...

approach, is incorporated in a number of texts as the systematic formal search for a counterexample as a system of formal rules. As we would all expect, the difficulty of the search increases when disjunctions of possible models are involved, and as I and most logicians would expect, the difficulty also increases when existential quantifiers are present. These particular sets of rules were chos...