Teleosemantics seeks to explain meaning and other intentional phenomena in terms of their function in the life of the species. This volume of new essays from an impressive line-up of well-known contributors offers a valuable summary of the current state of the teleosemantics debate.
1. Teleosemantics: The Programme, Prospects, and Problems,Graham Macdonald and David Papineau 2. Language, Modularity, and Evolution,Kim Sterelny 3. Mental Representation, Naturalism, and Teleosemantics,Peter Godfrey-Smith 4. Representation, Teleosemantics, and the Problem of Self-Knowledge,Fred Dretske 5. The Epistemological Objection to Opaque Teleological Theories of Content,Frank Jackson 6. Useless Content,Ruth Millikan 7. On Thinking of Kinds: A Neuroscientific Perspective,Dan Ryder 8. Teleosemantics and the Consumer,Mohan Matthen 9. . Content for Cognitive Science,Karen Neander 10. Representation and Unexploited Content,Robert Cummins, Jim Blackmon, David Byrd, Alexa Lee, and Martin Roth 11. Fearing Fluffy: The Content of an Emotional Appraisal,Carolyn Price
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