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William Ramsey

Disciplines:
philosophy of mind
cognitive science

Summary

American philosopher who has worked on connectionist models of cognition and the debate about mental representation.

Core Contribution

Representation Reconsidered: challenges the assumption that cognition requires internal representations — many cognitive processes can be explained without positing representational states. Contributed to the eliminativism debate.

Notable Works & Achievements

Representation Reconsidered

Historical Influences

Paul Churchland Patricia Churchland

Intellectual Lineage

Analytic Philosophy of Mind

Contemporaries & Peers

Andy Clark

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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