This volume collects Robert Cummins’s papers on mental representation. With three exceptions, the guiding principle of these papers is that it is a mistake to read off the structure and content of mental representation from the syntactic and semantic features of language, respectively. The exceptions are the only previously unpublished paper in the collection, ‘What is it like to be a computer?...

have established that psychological content can be socially determined. They are taken to show 1 that, contrary to the traditional Cartesian conception, the contents of an individual's thoughts are not always determined by his intrinsic properties alone, but can depend on the practices of the linguistic community of which he is a member. Specifically, Burge claims that his thought experiments s...

extended abstract 1. introduction the term “state” owing to its simultaneous presence in two epistemological and scientific fields named political science and political geography has assumed multiple meanings, applications, natures and synonyms, in a way that it has stirred a kind of chaos and lack of consensus, especially among political geographers. according to various texts, “state” is an a...

In this article, we canvass a few of the interesting topics that philosophers can pursue as part of the simultaneous study of logic and metaphysics. To keep the discussion to a manageable length, we limit our survey to deductive, as opposed to inductive, logic. Though most of this article will focus on the ways in which logic can be deployed in the study of metaphysics, we begin with a few rema...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the use of arabinoxylan as potential suspending agent, an effective alternative to commercially used excipients for the preparation of pharmaceutical suspensions. Alkali extraction was done to separate arabinoxylan from ispaghula (Plantago ovata) seed husk by alkali extraction its physicochemical characterization was done and the suspending properties of...