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Nicholas Shea (KCL), Functions for Representation

LAK 2.06, The Lakatos Building London School of Economics, London

Abstract: In the cognitive sciences, representations play a central role in explaining behaviour. Characteristically, representing correctly explains successful behaviour and misrepresentation explains failure. The standards of success and failure at play here are often tacit. What are they based on? Teleosemantics offers one answer: success is a matter of performing an evolutionary function. This paper […]

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