# Deflating Mental Representation
**Opening (not a real abstract):** The Jean Nicod Lectures Francois Recanati, editor The Elm and the Expert: Mentalese and Its Semantics, Jerry A. Fodor (1994) Naturalizing the Mind, Fred Dretske (1995) Strong Feelings: Emotion, Addiction, and Human Be hav ior, Jon Elster (1999) Knowledge, Possibility, and Conscsiousness, John Perry (2001) Rationality in Action, John R. Searle (2001) Varieties of Meaning, Ruth Garrett Millikan (2004) Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness, Daniel C. Dennett (2005) Things and Places: How the Mind Connects with the World, Zenon W. Pylyshyn (2007) Reliable Reasoning: Induction and Statistical Learning Theory, Gilbert Harman and Sanjeev Kulkarni (2007) Origins of Human Communication, Michael Tomasello (2008) The Evolved Apprentice: The Nicod Lectures 2008, Kim Sterelny (2011)
**Authors:** [[Frances Egan]]