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SUMMARY:Farewell to content - Kim Sterelny (Australian National University
 )
DTSTART:20141029T130000Z
DTEND:20141029T143000Z
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CONTACT:Christopher Clarke
DESCRIPTION:This paper defends a neo-Dennettian view of the psychosemantic
 s program\; on the attempt to develop a reductive naturalist theory of men
 tal content. It takes the teleosemantic program to be the current\nflagshi
 p version of reductive naturalism\, and the paper appeals to recent work o
 n human cognitive and social evolution (including my own recent work) to a
 rgue that there are fundamental problems in trying to\nextend a teleoseman
 tics of animal cognition to human cognition. But it also argues (admittedl
 y\, more sketchily) that this should not be seen as a threat to a naturali
 stic conception of human cognitive and\ncommunicative life.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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