Introduction

mental representation in cognitive science and the point of view of the phenomenology of consciousness

pp. 1-18

in: Eduard Marbach, Mental representation and consciousness, Deventer, Kluwer, 1993

Abstract

This study is about mental representation considered from the point of view of reflection upon consciousness. Methodologically speaking it is thus a phenomenological investigation in Husserl's sense. In elaborating the text, however, I did not primarily intend to make a contribution to Husserl scholarship. Rather, as I wish to outline here, my hope is that the thoughts expressed in this study will be of interest to readers who are receptive to recent developments in cognitive science and in the philosophy of mind, which has seen a resurgence of activity in the wake of the "cognitive revolution" in scientific psychology.