teleosemantics

Prima facie, both reductive naturalism (such as, for instance, a version of teleosemantics) and non-reductive naturalism

The Normativity of Meaning and Content Glüer, Kathrin 2009

He adverts to the psychosemantics sometimes appealed to by certain representationalists (Dretske and Tye in particular), arguing that neither indicator/covariation semantics nor teleosemantics will predict that Cynthia is representing redness.

Representational Theories of Consciousness Lycan, William 2006

A similar point can be made about Putnam's twin earths argument, the externalization of semantics and teleosemantics.

Semantic Conceptions of Information Floridi, Luciano 2005

Different proponents of teleosemantics have differed widely in their responses to the problem of complex causal roles.

Teleological Theories of Mental Content Neander, Karen 2004

Mark Rowland's "field guide" entry on teleosemantics.

Teleological Theories of Mental Content Neander, Karen 2004

However, it does illustrate the main differences among different versions of teleosemantics.

Teleological Theories of Mental Content Neander, Karen 2004

Normative teleosemantics can be construed as making a similar move: Here, it is those dispositions realizing the biological function of the mechanism of using an expression that determine meaning (where ˜biological function™ is taken to be something normative; cf. Millikan 1990,

The Normativity of Meaning and Content Glüer, Kathrin 2009

(Consumer semantics embraces not only a number of different varieties of teleosemantics, but also various forms of inferential role semantics.

Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness Carruthers, Peter 2007