[spsp-members] CfP for a Symposium on Frances Egan's Deflating Mental Representation
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Call for Papers: Book Symposium on "Deflating Mental Representation" by
Frances Egan
For the last forty years or so, philosophers of psychology have attempted
to provide a naturalized theory of content, a theory that explicates how
content arises from non-contentful features of the world. Despite
persistent efforts, no one account has achieved wide acceptance. Indeed,
there are those who think that the project is doomed to failure, so that
philosophers of psychology must learn to live without content. In *Deflating
Mental Representation* (MIT Press
<https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5927/Deflating-Mental-Representation>,
2025) Frances Egan strikes out on a new course. She proposes that there is
less to representation than robust realists have proposed, but also more to
representation than eliminativists have proposed. According to Egan,
representation is not a substantive relation nor is it an essential
property of mental states. Instead, representation serves as an informative
guide to underlying causal processes of the mind.
Based on the Jean Nicod Lectures, *Deflating Mental Representation* invites
a fundamental rethinking of philosophical presuppositions about content. It
is one of the most interesting developments in the field over the last
twenty five years. The *Philosophy and the Mind Sciences *symposium on
*Deflating
Mental Representation *will feature invited commentaries from Zoe Drayson
<https://philosophy.ucdavis.edu/people/zoe-drayson>, Alex Grzankowsi
<https://alexgrzankowski.com/>, Manolo Martinez
<http://www.ub.edu/grc_logos/manolo-martinez>, Tobias Schlicht
<https://www.tobiasschlicht.com/>/ Kryz Dolega <https://www.krysdolega.xyz/>,
and Mark Sprevak <https://marksprevak.com/>. We invite submissions from the
wider philosophical and scientific community, which should be between 1,000
and 3,500 words and received by April 15, 2026. Note that all submissions
will be peer-reviewed and that we aim to select around 3 additional
commentaries. If you are unsure whether the perspective provided by your
commentary is in line with the intended scope of the symposium, please send
a pre-submission inquiry with an abstract of 100-300 words to
ken.a...@gmail.com. For all submissions, please see the author’s précis,
here <https://philpapers.org/rec/EGAPOD>.
Deadlines and Schedule:
*Pre-submission inquiries* are welcome at any time.
*Manuscript Submission Period:* November 15th, 2025 – April 15, 2026
*Estimated Publication Date: *4th Quarter of 2026
Instructions for Author’s Submission can be found here.
<https://philosophymindscience.org/index.php/phimisci/about/submissions>
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Kenneth Aizawa
Department of Philosophy
Rutgers University, Newark
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