# 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]]