Description: In this provocative study, Robert Cummins takes on philosophers, both old and new, who pursue the question of mental representation as an abstraction, apart from the constraints of any particular theory or framework.
Brief description: Robert Cummins is Professor of Philosophy at University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign.
Review Quotes: "Cummins has written an immensely useful book. Although this is an area with a complex and confusing literature, Cummins manages to keep things short, simple and clear... Those who want to become informed about aboutness will not do better than start here."--David Papineau, Times Higher Education Supplement