caa a22 4500 605448442 CHVBK 20210128100136.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10539-015-9481-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10539-015-9481-3 Miłkowski Marcin Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Nowy Świat 72, 00-330, Warsaw, Poland aut Satisfaction conditions in anticipatory mechanisms [Elektronische Daten] [Marcin Miłkowski] The purpose of this paper is to present a general mechanistic framework for analyzing causal representational claims, and offer a way to distinguish genuinely representational explanations from those that invoke representations for honorific purposes. It is usually agreed that rats are capable of navigation (even in complete darkness, and when immersed in a water maze) because they maintain a cognitive map of their environment. Exactly how and why their neural states give rise to mental representations is a matter of an ongoing debate. I will show that anticipatory mechanisms involved in rats' evaluation of possible routes give rise to satisfaction conditions of contents, and this is why they are representationally relevant for explaining and predicting rats' behavior. I argue that a naturalistic account of satisfaction conditions of contents answers the most important objections of antirepresentationalists. The Author(s), 2015 Representation nationallicence Antirepresentationalism nationallicence Hard Problem of Content nationallicence Satisfaction conditions nationallicence Cognitive map nationallicence Anticipatory representation nationallicence Biology & Philosophy Springer Netherlands 30/5(2015-09-01), 709-728 0169-3867 30:5<709 2015 30 10539 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-015-9481-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-015-9481-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Miłkowski Marcin Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Nowy Świat 72, 00-330, Warsaw, Poland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Biology & Philosophy Springer Netherlands 30/5(2015-09-01), 709-728 0169-3867 30:5<709 2015 30 10539