Teleosemantics

• Hot topic at the scientific end of philosophy
• The starting-point for all future work
• Excellent contributors
• All essays specially written for this volume

Readership: Scholars and students of philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, and cognitive science

Edited by Graham Macdonald, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and David Papineau, Kings College London

"...this collection gives a good picture of the status of debate for philosophers of mind, scientists and philosophers in cognate disciplines, and senior students." - James Maclaurin MIND

1: Graham Macdonald and David Papineau: Teleosemantics: The Programme, Prospects, and Problems
2: Kim Sterelny: Language, Modularity, and Evolution
3: Peter Godfrey-Smith: Mental Representation, Naturalism, and Teleosemantics
4: Fred Dretske: Representation, Teleosemantics, and the Problem of Self-Knowledge
5: Frank Jackson: The Epistemological Objection to Opaque Teleological Theories of Content
6: Ruth Millikan: Useless Content
7: Dan Ryder: On Thinking of Kinds: A Neuroscientific Perspective
8: Mohan Matthen: Teleosemantics and the Consumer
9: Karen Neander: . Content for Cognitive Science
10: Robert Cummins, Jim Blackmon, David Byrd, Alexa Lee, and Martin Roth: Representation and Unexploited Content
11: Carolyn Price: Fearing Fluffy: The Content of an Emotional Appraisal