Comments on Favela and Machery's <i>The concept of representation in the brain sciences: The current status and ways forward</i>

Favela and Machery conclude from their studies that neuroscientists' and psychologists' concept of representation is both unclear and confused . Rather than advocating reform or elimination of the concept, they suggest that it can serve various theoretical purposes precisely because it is unclear and confused. I challenge their claim that the concept of representation, as used by neuroscientists and psychologists, is unclear and confused, and I propose an alternative explanation of why it might appear to be so.