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The Causal Argument Against Representationalism

The central argument against perceptual representationalism in my recent聽The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience聽was that representational聽states聽aren鈥檛 causally efficacious in the way that perceptual states are. In this talk I shall explore some further issues related to this argument, including the general question of the causal significance of representational states, and the prospects for holding that perceptual states metaphysically determine representational聽states聽while remaining distinct from them.