Teleosemantics: New Philo-sophical Essays

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New York: Oxford: Clarendon Press (2006)
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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

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B840.T45 2006

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9780199270262   0199270260   9780199270279

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. Content for Cognitive Science.Karen Neander
Fearing fluffy: The content of an emotional appraisal.Carolyn Price
Language, Modularity, and Evolution.Kim Sterelny
Mental Representation, Naturalism, and Teleosemantics.Peter Godfrey-Smith
Mental representation, naturalism, and teleosemantics.Peter Godfrey-Smith
On Thinking of Kinds: A Neuroscientific Perspective.Dan Ryder
Representation and unexploited content.James Blackmon, David Byrd, Robert C. Cummins, Alexa Lee & Martin Roth
Representation, teleosemantics, and the problem of self-knowledge.Fred Dretske
The Content of an Emotional Appraisal.Carolyn Price
Useless content.Ruth Millikan
Introduction: Prospects and problems for teleosemantics.  (pages 1--22)Graham Macdonald & David Papineau
Prospects and Problems for Teleosemantics.  (pages 1-22)G. Macdonald & D. Papineau
Teleosemantics: The programme, prospects, and problems.  (pages 1-22)Graham F. Macdonald & David Papineau
Language, modularity, and evolution.  (pages 23)Kim Sterelny
The epistemological objection to opaque teleological theories of content.  (pages 85--99)Frank Jackson
On thinking of kinds: A neuroscientific perspective.  (pages 115-145)Dan Ryder
Teleosemantics and the consumer.  (pages 146--166)Mohan Matthen

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. Content for Cognitive Science.Karen Neander - 2006 - In Graham Macdonald & David Papineau (eds.), Teleosemantics: New Philo-sophical Essays. New York: Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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Teleosemantics: The programme, prospects, and problems.Graham F. Macdonald & David Papineau - 2006 - In Graham Macdonald & David Papineau (eds.), Teleosemantics: New Philo-sophical Essays. New York: Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 1-22.
The Content of an Emotional Appraisal.Carolyn Price - 2006 - In Graham Macdonald & David Papineau (eds.), Teleosemantics: New Philo-sophical Essays. New York: Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Representation, teleosemantics, and the problem of self-knowledge.Fred Dretske - 2006 - In Graham Macdonald & David Papineau (eds.), Teleosemantics: New Philo-sophical Essays. New York: Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Useless content.Ruth Millikan - 2006 - In Graham Macdonald & David Papineau (eds.), Teleosemantics: New Philo-sophical Essays. New York: Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Introduction: Prospects and problems for teleosemantics.Graham Macdonald & David Papineau - 2006 - In Graham Macdonald & David Papineau (eds.), Teleosemantics: New Philo-sophical Essays. New York: Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 1--22.
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