Drawing on insights from causal theories of reference, teleosemantics, and state space
semantics, a theory of naturalized mental representation. In A Mark of the Mental, Karen …

Intentionality is the mind's ability to be" of,"" about," or" directed" at things, or to" say"
something. For example, a thought might" say" that grass is green or that Santa Claus is …

Delusional beliefs are typically pathological. Being pathological is clearly distinguished from
being false or being irrational. Anna might falsely believe that his husband is having an affair …

Semantic Naturalism is a metaphysical doctrine about the status of semantic properties. It is
the view that, the metaphysical connections between naturalistic and semantic properties …

Mainstream teleosemantics is the view that mental representation should be understood in
terms of biological functions, which, in turn, should be understood in terms of selection …

Teleosemantic theories of representation are often criticized as being “too liberal”, ie as
categorizing states as representations which are not representational at all. Recently, a …

This paper examines the question of whether Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT
possess minds, focusing specifically on whether they have a genuine folk psychology …

Perceptual representations have distal content: they represent external objects and their
properties, not light waves or retinal images. This basic fact presents a fundamental problem …

Skyrms, building on the work of Dretske, has recently developed a novel information-
theoretic account of propositional content in simple signalling systems. Information-theoretic …

Neural models achieve high performance on a variety of natural language processing (NLP)
benchmark tasks. How models perform these tasks, though, is notoriously poorly …