Disputes about the causal structure of natural selection have implications for teleosemantics.
Etiological, mainstream teleosemantics is based on a causalist view of natural selection. The …

In having an experience one is aware of having it. Having an experience requires some form
of access to one's own state, which distinguishes phenomenally conscious mental states …

Teleosemantic theories aim to naturalize mental representation through the use of functions,
typically based on past selection processes. However, the historical dependence of these …

Identifying our mental states' representational content with their strict informational content is
not an attractive option. The most famous disjunction problem is the problem of …

Consider, for example, the thought that blossoms are forming. On a representational theory
of thought, this involves a representation of blossoms forming. A theory of mental content …

The traditional approach in cognitive sciences holds that cognition is a matter of
manipulating abstract symbols following certain rules. According to this view, the body is …

Abstract Representations are not only used in our folk-psychological explanations of
behaviour, but are also fruitfully postulated, for example, in cognitive science. The …

This dissertation develops two interrelated theories: A theory of natural function, which tells
us in virtue of what a particular biological item has the function it has; and a theory of …

ABSTRACT A naturalistic account of mental content is presented, aimed at solving the
problems with content indeterminacy that afflict other similar efforts-notably, teleosemantics …

According to proponents of radically extended cognition, some cognition is located outside
the boundaries of biological organisms. In this paper, I offer a new argument for a modest …