Naturalism, Evolution, and
Intentionality
Jillian Scott McIntosh, editor
ISBN 0919491278
ISSN 0229-7051
5.5 x 8.5 in.
$22.00 paper
2001
160 pages
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume XXVII (2001)
About the Book
This collection of new essays concerning the mind explores the prospects
for, and limits of, appealing to facts about evolutionary history and
current environment-organism interaction in explaining the nature and
workings of the mental. Each paper addresses empirical data from evolutionary
theory, ethology, psychology, or neuroscience, though they vary with regard
to their optimism as to what such discoveries can tell us about particular
issues in the philosophy of mind.
This book will be of interest to philosophers of mind, cognitive and evolutionary psychologists, cognitive ethologists, and neuroscientists.
Table of Contents
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CONTENTS
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Jillian
S. McIntosh
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Introduction:
Investigating the Mind
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I.
ADAPTATION AND THE MENTAL
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Wayne
D. Christensen
and Cliff A. Hooker |
Self-directed
Agents
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Philip
P. Hanson
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Darwin's
Algorithm, Natural Selective History, and Intentionality Naturalized
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Larry
Shapiro
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Adapted
Minds
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II.
TELEOSEMANTICS
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Colin
Allen
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A
Tale of Two Froggies
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Paul
Sheldon Davies
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The
Excesses of Teleosemantics
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Eric
Saidel
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Teleosemantics
and the Epiphenomenality of Content
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Timothy
Schroeder
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Monsters
Among Us
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II.
VISION
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Melvyn
A. Goodale
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Why Vision Is More than Seeing |
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Mohan
Matthen
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Our Knowledge of Colour |
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