Beyond black dots and nutritious things: A solution to the indeterminacy problem

Mind and Language 36 (3):471-490 (2021)
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Abstract

The indeterminacy problem is one of the most prominent objections against naturalistic theories of content. In this essay I present this difficulty and argue that extant accounts are unable to solve it. Then, I develop a particular version of teleosemantics, which I call ’explanation-based teleosemantics’, and show how this outstanding problem can be addressed within the framework of a powerful naturalistic theory.

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