The Research Seminar Series in Philosophy invites you to a seminar with Peter Schulte, "Where Structuralism About Mental Representation Goes Wrong: Putting Structural Similarity in Its Place".
Abstract: Structuralism has emerged in recent decades as one of the leading theories of representation. The core idea of structuralism is that the content of representational states is grounded in a relation of second-order similarity between mind and word – a relation standardly called “structural similarity”. In this talk, I first distinguish between two major version of structuralism that are often conflated. I then argue that neither of these versions is tenable, and suggest an alternative, “subsidiary” role for structural similarity in the explanation of representational content.
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