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Frances Egan, "Deflating Mental Representation" (MIT Press, 2025)
The human mind has the curious, even mysterious, ability to generate thoughts about things with which we are not in causal contact, such as when we think about yesterday’s tennis final, or Aristotle, or unicorns. Natural...
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Frances Egan, "Deflating Mental Representation" (MIT Press, 2025) is an episode from New Books in Philosophy by New Books Network. The human mind has the curious, even mysterious, ability to generate thoughts about things with which we are...
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Published Aug 10, 2025, 62:21 long, audio available.
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