基本説明
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. Contributors: Jim Blackmon, David Byrd, Robert Cummins, Fred Dretske, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Frank Jackson, Alexa Lee, Graham Macdonald, Mohan Matthen, Ruth Millikan, Karen Neander, David Papineau, Carolyn Price, Martin Roth, Dan Ryder, and Kim Sterelny.
Full Description
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.
Contents
1. Teleosemantics: The Programme, Prospects, and Problems ; 2. Language, Modularity, and Evolution ; 3. Mental Representation, Naturalism, and Teleosemantics ; 4. Representation, Teleosemantics, and the Problem of Self-Knowledge ; 5. The Epistemological Objection to Opaque Teleological Theories of Content ; 6. Useless Content ; 7. On Thinking of Kinds: A Neuroscientific Perspective ; 8. Teleosemantics and the Consumer ; 9. . Content for Cognitive Science ; 10. Representation and Unexploited Content ; 11. Fearing Fluffy: The Content of an Emotional Appraisal
