representationalist

The intentional theory of perception treats perceptual experience as a form of intentionality or mental representation (hence it is also sometimes called the representationalist theory of perception).

The Problem of Perception Crane, Tim 2005

Almost all theories of consciousness regard it as having representational features, but so called representationalist theories are defined by the stronger view that its representational features exhaust its mental features (Harman 1990, Tye 1995, 2000).

Consciousness Van Gulick, Robert 2004

That limitation may well have been one of the reasons why nineteenth century art led toward into surrealism, abstractionism, and all the other “non-representationalist” forms, as part of an effort on the part of the artists to engage their viewers beyond the image itself.

November « 2008 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2008

That limitation may well have been one of the reasons why nineteenth century art led toward into surrealism, abstractionism, and all the other “non-representationalist” forms, as part of an effort on the part of the artists to engage their viewers beyond the image itself.

A Thousand Words? « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2008

One significant recent source of motivation for disjunctivism (common to the views proposed by Martin, Campbell and Brewer) is the suggestion that we should moving away from representationalist accounts of the way in which our minds are intentionally directed upon the mind-independent world when we perceive it.

Petty Injuries 2009

The most straightforward way to deal with the affective qualia for a representationalist is to say that they too are representational, just like the sensory qualia.

Pain Aydede, Murat 2009

Only by understanding the deficiencies Heidegger saw in these representationalist accounts of perception can we get a grasp on what an “analytic of Dasein” entails.

Archive 2009-06-01 enowning 2009

But if it is admitted that affective aspect of pain is as qualitative as its sensory content, then cognitivism comes as a compromise for strong representationalist because it admits that not all qualia are representational.

Pain Aydede, Murat 2009

Only by understanding the deficiencies Heidegger saw in these representationalist accounts of perception can we get a grasp on what an “analytic of Dasein” entails.

enowning enowning 2009

The immediate significance of this was that it provided a strong argument against direct representationalist theories of perception.

Ernst Mach Pojman, Paul 2009