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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"teleosemantic"”.
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A Teleosemantic Theory Of The Deep-Unconscious: A Response To John R. Searle's Account Of The Unconscious
… our judgements. As an alternative, I defend a teleosemantic theory of the unconscious as a causal explanation for consciously unintended human behaviors.
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Etiological teleosemantics and theories of nonconceptual content
… by each representational system. In ‘Etiological Teleosemantics and Theories of Nonconceptual Mental Content’, I apply the teleosemantic theory pioneered by Ruth Garrett Millikan to the conceptualist/nonconceptualist debate, arguing that teleosemantics provides an independently plausible account …
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THE PERSISTENCE OF INDETERMINACY: CONTEMPORARY THEORIES AND KRIPKENSTEIN'S CHALLENGE TO REPRESENTATIONAL CONTENT
… approaches include causal theories of reference, teleosemantic theories of mental content, and phenomenal intentionality theories. The result of my investigation is, unfortunately, negative. None of the contemporary approaches examined in this work successfully isolate what makes representations …
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In Favor of Teleosemantics: A Millikanian Treatment of the Intentional Content of Mental Representation
… introducing a divergent approach known today as "teleosemantics."</p> <p>In first approximation, teleosemantics purports to naturalize mental content by substituting for the former concept of nomic correlations found in causal and/or functionalist models, the biological concept of etiological …