Back to Representationalism

Bonnardel, Valérie

Volume 13 · Number 1 · Pages 132–133

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Back to Representationalism

Valérie Bonnardel

Abstract

Open peer commentary on the article “Missing Colors: The Enactivist Approach to Perception” by Adrián G. Palacios, María-José Escobar & Esteban Céspedes. Upshot: Palacios, Escobar and Céspedes consider misrepresentation and comparability in the context of the enactivist approach of colour perception. This consideration leads them to propose the introduction of a weak form of representationalism to account for internal representation of “reality” and “shared experience” and to accommodate the Bayesian principle of prior information used in machine vision. The weak representationalism is not limited to brain states but may include embodied factors to be compatible with the enactivist framework. My commentary will essentially consider the misrepresentation and comparability arguments used by the authors to introduce the notion of representation.

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Bonnardel V. (2017) Back to representationalism. Constructivist Foundations 13(1): 132–133. http://constructivist.info/13/1/132

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