On Millikan /

Shea, Nicholas, -1970

On Millikan / Nicholas Shea. - Belmont, CA : Thomson Higher Education, c2005. - 99 p. 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [97]-99).

Focuses on biosemantics/intentionality.Explains intentionality in terms that are broadly biological as she uses the explanatory resources of natural selection: what thoughts and sentences and desires are "about" is ultimately elucidated by reference to what has been selected and what is has been selected for( i.e. what advantage it conferred on ancestors who possesses it).

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