Mind and Function – Teleosemantics Beyond Selected Effects
Dissertation, Universität Bielefeld (2018)
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Perceptual representations are either correct or incorrect. Their correctness depends on their content and on the way the world is. Teleosemantics delivers compelling explanations of why our perceptual representations have contents, whereby it assigns the notion of "function" a central explanatory role.
The author of this thesis engages in the search for a theory of function suited for this purpose. After a detailed evaluation of the selected effects theory and dispositional theories, the author argues that a synthesis is best suited to be used by teleosemantics.
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