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Teleosemantics.

Teleosemantics seeks to explain meaning and other intentional phenomena in terms of their function in the life of the species. This volume of new essays from an impressive line-up of well-known contributors offers a valuable summary of the current state of the teleosemantics debate. - ;Teleosemantic...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Macdonald, Graham
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction: Prospects and Problems for Teleosemantics; 1. Language, Modularity, and Evolution; 2. Mental Representation, Naturalism, and Teleosemantics; 3. Representation, Teleosemantics, and the Problem of Self-Knowledge; 4. The Epistemological Objection to Opaque Teleological Theories of Content; 5. Useless Content; 6. On Thinking of Kinds: A Neuroscientific Perspective; 7. Teleosemantics and the Consumer; 8. Content for Cognitive Science; 9. Representation and Unexploited Content; 10. Fearing Fluffy: The Content of an Emotional Appraisal; Index.