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Informational Theories of Content and Mental Representation
Informational theories of semantic content have been recently gaining prominence in the debate on the notion of mental representation. …
Marc Artiga
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Miguel Ángel Sebastián
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Models, information and meaning
There has recently been an explosion of formal models of signalling, which have been developed to learn about different aspects of …
Marc Artiga
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Biological Functions and Natural Selection: A Reappraisal
The goal of this essay is to assess the Selected-Effects Etiological Theory of biological function, according to which a trait has a …
Marc Artiga
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Synergic Kinds
According to the
homeostatic property cluster
family of accounts, one of the main conditions for groups of properties to count as …
Manolo Martínez
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Deception as Cooperation
I develop a rate-distortion analysis of signaling games with imperfect common interest. Sender and receiver should be seen as jointly …
Manolo Martínez
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A Mark of the Mental: In Defense of Informational Teleosemantics
Review of Karen Neander’s 2019 book
Manolo Martínez
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Real Patterns and Indispensability
While scientific inquiry crucially relies on the extraction of patterns from data, we still have a far from perfect understanding of …
Abel Suñé
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Manolo Martínez
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Representations are Rate-Distortion Sweet Spots
Information is widely perceived as essential to the study of communication and representation; still, theorists working on these topics …
Manolo Martínez
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Usefulness Drives Representations to Truth
An important objection to signaling approaches to representation is that, if signaling behavior is driven by the maximization of …
Manolo Martínez
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