Representation of identities and the politics of representation in cognition

In this paper, I make a plea for viewing representation as first and foremost a political matter. I argue that by so doing we may avoid the many of pitfalls of contemporary theories of cognition as they attempt to tackle the issue of representation. Most of these problems have to do with the fact th...

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Autor principal: Rajagopalan, Kanavillil
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Lenguaje:Portugués
Publicado: ALFA: Revista de Linguística 2001
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Cognition; representation: politics; realism; idealism; ideology; anti-representationalism;
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/alfa/article/view/4187
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=br/br-048&d=article4187oai
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topic Cognition; representation: politics; realism; idealism; ideology; anti-representationalism;
spellingShingle Cognition; representation: politics; realism; idealism; ideology; anti-representationalism;
Rajagopalan, Kanavillil
Representation of identities and the politics of representation in cognition
topic_facet Cognition; representation: politics; realism; idealism; ideology; anti-representationalism;
description In this paper, I make a plea for viewing representation as first and foremost a political matter. I argue that by so doing we may avoid the many of pitfalls of contemporary theories of cognition as they attempt to tackle the issue of representation. Most of these problems have to do with the fact that representation is treated exclusively as a mimetic or theatrical question. The fact of the matter is however that representation also has a political dimension. Indeed it has always had this political dimension which, counterintuitive though it may seem at first glimpse, manifests itself even in very the attempt to aestheticise the whole issue of representation (as in some versions of postmodernism) or to deny its role altogether as a tertium quid between the external world and the cognising mind (as in contemporary neo-pragmatism). I also contend that, by recognising the political nature of representation, we also pave the way for endorsing the thesis that the mind is a social construct, thereby taking some steam out of the thesis of "mind-brain identity" (so-called "identity theory of mind".
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title Representation of identities and the politics of representation in cognition
title_short Representation of identities and the politics of representation in cognition
title_full Representation of identities and the politics of representation in cognition
title_fullStr Representation of identities and the politics of representation in cognition
title_full_unstemmed Representation of identities and the politics of representation in cognition
title_sort representation of identities and the politics of representation in cognition
publisher ALFA: Revista de Linguística
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