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William Bechtel: Investigating Neural Representations: The Tale of Place Cells
William Bechtel: Investigating Neural Representations: The Tale of Place Cells
ABSTRACT While neuroscientists often characterize brain activity as representational, many philosophers have construed this as just a theorist’s gloss on the mechanism. Moreover, philosophical discussions commonly treat neuroscience accounts as finished accounts, not as works in progress. I adopt a different perspective, considering how characterizations of neural activity as representational contributes to the development of […]