I’m happy to report that my paper Incoherence, referential and Fregean has been accepted for publication in Synthese. You can download a preprint here. Structural irrationality, also known as incoherence, consists in the obtaining or failure to obtain of certain relations among the propositional contents of a subject’s attitudes. For instance, it is structurally irrational to believe in a proposition P and also believe its negation not-P.

It is a central task for theories of representation to give a principled account of the distinction between representational and non-representational systems. In this paper, I begin by arguing that th...

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A Turkish man joined a search party without realising he was the person they were looking for.

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This paper applies a consumer-based teleosemantic framework to give a detailed analysis of a particular algorithm for generating word embeddings. In the process, it addresses several of the challenge...

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This volume provides a cohesive and comprehensive case that cognitive neuroscience is maturing into an integrated, interdisciplinary science that is transforming our understanding of the mind. The ris...

Potentialities are properties that can manifest. Many potentialities are instantiated in virtue of having causal bases that are possible causes for their

Millikan’s biosemantics is commonly characterized as a “consumer theory” of representational content. Proponents of this characterization interpret Millikan as privileging representation consumers ove...

Millikan’s biosemantics is commonly characterized as a “consumer theory” of representational content. Proponents of this characterization interpret Millikan as privileging representation consumers ove...

According to Ruth Millikan, some representations are hybrid: they have both descriptive and directive content, both mind-to-world and world-to-mind direction of fit. Millikan calls them “pushmi-pullyu...

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This paper argues that the so-called scaling-up problem (representation-hunger problem) can be resolved within the mechanistic framework of explanation. Emphasising the problem’s character as an empir...

Theories of consciousness have a long and controversial history. One well-known proposal — integrated information theory — has recently been labeled as ‘pseudoscience’, which has caused a heated open ...

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