ABSTRACT
In this chapter we turn to the third of the four pictures of the mind that we will be looking at in the first part of this book. This is the representational picture, which construes the mind on the model of a digital computer. The representational approach to the mind has been enormously influential in philosophy, psychology and artificial intelligence. It has been developed in a number of different ways with a number of different motivations. My focus in this chapter will be on the version of representationalism developed and defended by Jerry Fodor, both because it is developed with philosophical problems and issues clearly in view and because it is explicitly focused on the interface problem.1
