title: A brief introduction to the guidance theory of representation creator: Rosenberg, Dr. Gregg creator: Anderson, Dr. Michael L. subject: Philosophy of Language subject: Animal Cognition subject: Philosophy of Mind subject: Artificial Intelligence description: Recent trends in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science can be fruitfully characterized as part of the ongoing attempt to come to grips with the very idea of homo sapiens--an intelligent, evolved, biological agent--and its signature contribution is the emergence of a philosophical anthropology which, contra Descartes and his thinking thing, instead puts doing at the center of human being. Applying this agency-oriented line of thinking to the problem of representation, this paper introduces the Guidance Theory, according to which the content and intentionality of representations can be accounted for in terms of the way they provide guidance for action. We offer a brief account of the motivation for the theory, and a formal characterization. date: 2004 type: Conference Paper type: PeerReviewed format: application/pdf identifier: http://cogprints.org/3952/1/CNA_cogsci04.pdf identifier: Rosenberg, Dr. Gregg and Anderson, Dr. Michael L. (2004) A brief introduction to the guidance theory of representation. [Conference Paper] relation: http://cogprints.org/3952/