Introduction Millikan’s theory of content places great reliance on the existence of isomorphisms between a system of representations and the things in the world which they represent — “the mapping requirement for being intentional signs” (Millikan 2004, p. 106). This paper asks whether those isomorphisms are doing any substantive explanatory work. Millikan’s isomorphism requirement is deployed ...

This essay examines one of the cornerstones of Leibniz’s defense of teleology within the order of nature. The first section explores Leibniz’s contributions to the study of geometrical optics, and argues that his introduction of the “Most Determined Path Principle” or “MDPP” allows him to bring to the fore philosophical issues concerning the legitimacy of teleological explanations by addressing...

This paper offers a rethinking of the concept teleology in Marxist theory. In particular, I propose some reflections on György Lukács’s labour, addressed The Young Hegel and subsequently reworked Ontology Social Being. Lukács challenged an idealist notion understood as realisation transcendental principle posited priori. He redefined by showing how Marx reintroduced question purpose essential q...