Teleosemantics : new philosophical essays / / edited by Graham Macdonald and David Papineau

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Clarendon Press, 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 121/.68
• Soggetto topico: Semantics (Philosophy); Mechanism (Philosophy); Naturalism
• Altri autori: MacdonaldGraham PapineauDavid <1947->
• Note generali: Formerly CIP.; Previously issued in print: 2006.
• 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 a line-up of well-known contributors offers a summary of the current state of the teleosemantics debate.
• 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.: 9910820546303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.