Representation (philosophy)
In philosophy, representation (from the Latin repraesentare , 'make present') refers to the making present of what is not immediately given in the imagination. In neuroscientific terms, representations are understood as mental states. Expressions such as 'idea', 'representation' or ' image ' are also used to designate representations. The brain, texts, images, files or algorithms come into consideration as a medium. Representations are created through an act of visualizing ideas or memories. They are in particular the subject of epistemology , the philosophy of mind and neurophilosophy .
In the philosophy of antiquity up to the early modern period, a relationship between objects and their mental representations was predominantly assumed. On the other hand, Thomas Hobbes already has the theory that mental representations are to be understood as language-like symbolic patterns. The basic idea of the similarity between representation and represented object was rejected by considerations of sign theory on the representation of a process or object by Charles Sanders Peirce as well as more recently by Nelson Goodman .
literature
- Andreas Bartels: Structural Representation . mentis, Paderborn 2005
- Thomas Rolf: Experience and Representation. An anthropological study . Parerga, Berlin 2006
- Hans Jörg Sandkühler : Critique of Representation: Introduction to the theory of beliefs, knowledge cultures and knowledge . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 2009
- Kai Vogeley : Representation and Identity: On the Convergence of Brain Research and Brain-Mind Philosophy . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1995
Web links
- Josef Bayer: The representation of common names and proper names in the mental lexicon
- Silja Freudenberger: Representation: A way out of the crisis (PDF file; 139 kB) , in: Silja Freudenberger, Hans Jörg Sandkühler (Ed.): Representation, crisis of representation, paradigm shift . A research program in philosophy and science, Frankfurt a. a. 2003, 71-102
- Andreas Kemmerling: Mental Representations (PDF file; 1.29 MB)
- William G. Lycan: Representational Theories of Consciousness. In: Edward N. Zalta (Ed.): Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy .
- Hans Jörg Sandkühler: Keyword representation (PDF file; 55 kB) , in: Enzyklopädie Philosophie , 2 volumes, Meiner, Hamburg 1999, Sp. 1384-1389
- Hans Jörg Sandkühler: Representation - The questionability of our images of the world of things (PDF file; 71 kB) , in: Silja Freudenberger, Hans Jörg Sandkühler (Ed.): Representation, crisis of representation, paradigm shift . A research program in philosophy and science, Frankfurt a. a. 2003, 47-70