Naturalising Representational Content
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Naturalising Representational Content.
This paper sets out a view about the explanatory role of representational content and advocates one approach to naturalising content - to giving a naturalistic account of what makes an entity a representation and in virtue of what it has the content it does. It argues for pluralism about the metaphysics of content and suggests that a good strategy is to ask the content question with respect to ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophy Compass
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1747-9991,1747-9991
DOI: 10.1111/phc3.12033