Algorithms for the calculation of representational status and content

Beyond Black Dots and Nutritious Things: A Solution to the Indeterminacy Problem
The indeterminacy problem is one of the most prominent objections against naturalistic theories of content. In this essay, I present …
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Strong Liberal Representationalism
The received view holds that there is a significant divide between full-blown representational states and so called …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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