Teleosemantics : new philosophical essays / edited by Graham Macdonald and David Papineau.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Macdonald, Graham
Papineau, David, 1947-
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Semantics (Philosophy)
Mechanism (Philosophy)
Naturalism.
Physical Description:[vii], 232 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: prospects and problems for teleosemantics / Graham Macdonald, David Papineau
  • Language, modularity, and evolution / Kim Sterelny
  • Mental representation, naturalism, and teleosemantics / Peter Godfrey-Smith
  • Representation, teleosemantics, and the problem of self-knowledge / Fred Dretske
  • The epistemological objection to opaque teleological theories of content / Frank Jackson
  • Useless content / Ruth Millikan
  • On thinking of kinds: a neuroscientific perspective / Dan Ryder
  • Teleosemantics and the consumer / Mohan Matthen
  • Content for cognitive science / Karen Neander
  • Representation and unexploited content / Robert Cummins ... [et al.]
  • Fearing fluffy: the content of an emotional appraisal / Carolyn Price.