Teleosemantics

Graham Macdonald, David Papineau (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

242 Seiten

2006
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-927027-9 (ISBN)

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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.

1. Teleosemantics: The Programme, Prospects, and Problems ; 2. Language, Modularity, and Evolution ; 3. Mental Representation, Naturalism, and Teleosemantics ; 4. Representation, Teleosemantics, and the Problem of Self-Knowledge ; 5. The Epistemological Objection to Opaque Teleological Theories of Content ; 6. Useless Content ; 7. On Thinking of Kinds: A Neuroscientific Perspective ; 8. Teleosemantics and the Consumer ; 9. . Content for Cognitive Science ; 10. Representation and Unexploited Content ; 11. Fearing Fluffy: The Content of an Emotional Appraisal

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.10.2006
Zusatzinfo	figures
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 216 mm
Gewicht	282 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-19-927027-9 / 0199270279
ISBN-13	978-0-19-927027-9 / 9780199270279
Zustand	Neuware