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Titolo: | Teleosemantics [[electronic resource] ] : new philosophical essays / / edited by Graham Macdonald and David Papineau |
Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Clarendon Press, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
Disciplina: | 121/.68 |
Soggetto topico: | Semantics (Philosophy) |
Mechanism (Philosophy) | |
Naturalism | |
Altri autori: | MacdonaldGraham PapineauDavid <1947-> |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | ; Introduction: prospects and problems for teleosemantics / Graham Macdonald, David Papineau -- Language, modularity, and evolution / Kim Sterelny -- Mental representation, naturalism, and teleosemantics / Peter Godfrey-Smith -- Representation, teleosemantics, and the problem of self-knowledge / Fred Dretske -- The epistemological objection to opaque teleological theories of content / Frank Jackson -- Useless content / Ruth Millikan -- On thinking of kinds: a neuroscientific perspective / Dan Ryder -- Teleosemantics and the consumer / Mohan Matthen -- Content for cognitive science / Karen Neander -- Representation and unexploited content / Robert Cummins ... [et al.] -- Fearing fluffy: the content of an emotional appraisal / Carolyn Price. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. - ;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. - ;...this collection gives a |
Titolo autorizzato: | Teleosemantics |
ISBN: | 1-383-04135-0 |
1-280-75245-9 | |
9786610752454 | |
0-19-151505-1 | |
1-4294-5938-7 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910784726603321 |
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