Such philosophical commitments find representation within the practice of CAM therapies.
Here I focus on his treatment of representation in philosophical thought, where we find Foucault's most direct engagement with traditional philosophical questions.
On this broader construal, mental representation is a philosophical topic with roots in antiquity and a rich history and literature predating the recent "cognitive revolution," and which continues to be of interest in pure philosophy.
In this book, and in the closely related essays collected in Consequences of Pragmatism (1982, hereafter CP), Rorty's principal target is the philosophical idea of knowledge as representation, as a mental mirroring of a mind-external world.
In terms of sheer productivity, brilliance, distinctly American diction, philosophical rage, comic irritability, dramatic representations of solitude, uniqueness of voice and unwavering repugnance toward heterosexual convention, it is difficult to think of a contemporary artist with whom Roth might even be compared.
Whatever its philosophical underpinnings, however, the politics of representation embedded in architecture and photography, and examined in these illuminating shows, is still operative in India today.
In his major philosophical work, The World as Will and Representation (1819), Schopenhauer reiterated Kant's claim that, given the structure of human cognition, knowledge of things as they really are is impossible; the best that can be obtained are comparatively superficial representations of things.
(PMN 174) That epistemological behaviorism differs from traditional forms of relativism and subjectivism is easier to see in light of Rorty's criticism of the notion of representation, and the cluster of philosophical images which surround it.
However, these lines of argument fly in the face not just of the practice of cognitive scientists, but also of some important philosophical analyses of the notion of subpersonal representation (Burge 1986, Egan 1992, Bermúdez 1995).
Attitudes towards unitarily inequivalent representations differ drastically in the philosophical literature.
This self-reporting feature of distributed representations promises to resolve a philosophical conundrum about meaning.
