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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"teleosemantics"”.
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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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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 …
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On Distinguishing the Meaningless from the Meaningful: An Evolutionary Game Theoretic Approach to Ruth Millikan\'s Teleosemantics
… say that, within the context of Ruth Millikan\'s teleosemantics, it is a term\'s having a proper function that distinguishes it from a meaningless utterance, I propose that the distinction can be made with reference to the history of the term. Using evolutionary game theory, I offer a way to …
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Moral Reasons Arbitrariness
… John Post (following Ruth Garrett Millikan's "teleosemantics") each succumb to moral reasons arbitrariness. If a moral philosophy suffers from moral reasons arbitrariness, it fails to establish support relations for moral judgments that uniquely justify those judgments in terms that make …
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Unarticulated Constituents and Theories of Meaning
… intention-based semantics and Ruth Millikan’s teleosemantics, arguing that Millikan’s perception-based response to the problem of underspecification is untenable unless it is modified to give prominence to the speaker’s intentions.</p>