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A Mark of the Mental - In Defense of Informational Teleosemantics (Hardcover)
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A Mark of the Mental - In Defense of Informational Teleosemantics (Hardcover)
Series: Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
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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 Neander
considers the representational power of mental states-described by
the cognitive scientist Zenon Pylyshyn as the "second hardest
puzzle" of philosophy of mind (the first being consciousness). The
puzzle at the heart of the book is sometimes called "the problem of
mental content," "Brentano's problem," or "the problem of
intentionality." Its motivating mystery is how neurobiological
states can have semantic properties such as meaning or reference.
Neander proposes a naturalistic account for sensory-perceptual
(nonconceptual) representations. Neander draws on insights from
state-space semantics (which appeals to relations of second-order
similarity between representing and represented domains), causal
theories of reference (which claim the reference relation is a
causal one), and teleosemantic theories (which claim that semantic
norms, at their simplest, depend on functional norms). She proposes
and defends an intuitive, theoretically well-motivated but highly
controversial thesis: sensory-perceptual systems have the function
to produce inner state changes that are the analogs of as well as
caused by their referents. Neander shows that the three main
elements-functions, causal-information relations, and relations of
second-order similarity-complement rather than conflict with each
other. After developing an argument for teleosemantics by examining
the nature of explanation in the mind and brain sciences, she
develops a theory of mental content and defends it against six main
content-determinacy challenges to a naturalized semantics.
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