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Living with semantic indeterminacy: The teleosemanticist's guideMind and Language. 2024.Teleosemantics has an indeterminacy problem. In an earlier publication, I argued that teleosemanticists may afford to be realists about indeterminacy, pointing to the phenomenon of vagueness as a case of really-existing semantic indeterminacy. Here, I continue that project by proposing two criteria of adequacy that a semantically indeterminate theory should meet: a criterion of theoretical adequacy and a criterion of extensional adequacy. I present reasons to think that indeterminate versions of…Read more
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Should the teleosemanticist be afraid of semantic indeterminacy?Mind and Language (N/A). 2021.The teleosemantic indeterminacy problem has generated much discussion but no consensus. One possible solution is to accept indeterminacy as a real feature of some representations. I call this view “indeterminacy realism.” In this paper, I argue that indeterminacy realism should be treated as a serious option. By drawing an analogy with vagueness, I try to show that accepting the reality of indeterminacy would not be catastrophic for teleosemantics. I further argue that there are positive reasons…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Teleological Accounts of Mental Content |
Moral Naturalism |
Content Internalism and Externalism |
Rationality |
Fiction |