International Journal of Philosophical Studies 22 (4):583-603 (2014)
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Peter Godfrey-Smith and Nicholas Shea have argued that standard versions of teleosemantics render explanations of successful behavior by appealing to true beliefs circular and, consequently, non-explanatory. As an alternative, Shea has recently suggested an original teleosemantic account (that he calls ?Infotel-semantics?), which is supposed to be immune to the problem of circularity. The paper argues that the standard version of teleosemantics has a satisfactory reply to the circularity objection and that, in any case, Infotel-semantics is not better off than standard teleosemantics
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Keywords | Nicholas Shea Mental content Circularity Infotelsemantics Mental representation |
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DOI | 10.1080/09672559.2014.893003 |
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