El antirrealismo de los estados mentales y el problema de la representación
The antirealism of mental states and the problem of representation
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This paper defends an instrumentalist position with respect to mental states from the treatment of the problem of representation. The argument consists of two major steps: the first is to show that, for the explanation of misrepresentation, one must appeal to a teleological theory of representation; and the second consists in showing how any teleological theory is incompatible with intentional realism. From this, two of the main questions of instrumentalism will be addressed: the difficulty encountered when trying to explain the effectiveness of popular psychology in an anti-realistic framework, and the inconsistency in which an instrumentalist position that is based on teleological considerations apparently falls.