On Millikan / Nicholas Shea.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Belmont, CA : Thomson Higher Education, c2005.Description: 99 p. 22 cmISBN:
  • 534609945
LOC classification:
  • B 945.M487  .Sh31 2005
Summary: 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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B 945.J24 .T144 2004 On James / B 945.K794 .P926 2003 On Kripke / B 945.M464 .D51 2002 On Mead / B 945.M487 .Sh31 2005 On Millikan / B 945.P44 .D51 2001 On Peirce / B 945.P874 .M287 2003 On Putnam / B 945.Q54 .N334 2000 On Quine /

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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