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Doing Without Representation: Coping with Dreyfus 

Author: Jonathan Webber (Show Biography)
DOI: 10.1080/10002002018538723
Publication Frequency: 3 issues per year
Published in: journal Philosophical Explorations, Volume 5, Issue 1 January 2002 , pages 82 - 88
Subject: Philosophy of Mind;
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Abstract

Hubert Dreyfus argues that the traditional and currently dominant conception of an action, as an event initiated or governed by a mental representation of a possible state of affairs that the agent is trying to realise, is inadequate. If Dreyfus is right, then we need a new conception of action. I argue, however, that the considerations that Dreyfus adduces show only that an action need not be initiated or governed by a conceptual representation, but since a representation need not be conceptually structured, do not show that we need a conception of action that does not involve representation.
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