Indication and adaptation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10812290 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Godfrey-Smith, Peter Godfrey‐smith (0000-0003-1519-3661, Stanford University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 283-312 |
| Publication date | 1992-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Synthese (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0039-7857 • E-ISSN: 1573-0964 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/bf00414302 |
| OpenAlex | W2040448465 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 26 |
Adaptation (eye) · Biology · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Function (biology) · Metaphysics · Naturalism · Philosophy of language · Philosophy of science · Point (geometry) · Political science · Representation (politics) · Computer Science · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Psychology
The place of function in a world of mechanisms
A Consumer-Based Teleosemantics for Animal Signals
Representation in Cognitive Science
What Biological Functions Are and Why They Matter
Origins of Objectivity
A Forward-Looking Theory of Content
Extended control systems
Directive Content
Probabilistic causation and the explanatory role of natural selection
Natural probabilistic information
Mindless accuracy
Being realistic about common knowledge
Sensory malfunctions, limitations, and trade-offs
Information is intrinsically semantic but alethically neutral
Function, selection, and construction in the brain
Imagining as a skillful mental action
Edmond Goblot’s (1858–1935) Selected Effects Theory of Function
A Generalized Selected Effects Theory of Function
How to Be a Function Pluralist
Semantics naturalized
Causal Theories of Mental Content
Knowledge and the flow of information
Reality and representation.
Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories
Belief, Truth and Knowledge
Meaning and Mental Representation
Explaining Behavior
The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm
Biosemantics
Discrimination and Perceptual Knowledge
Functional Analysis
The meaning of ‘meaning’
Functions
Psychosemantics
Toward a Causal Theory of Linguistic Representation
Contrastive Statements
Mental representation from the bottom up
Semantics, Wisconsin style
The epistemology of belief
Could man be an irrational animal
Belief, information and semantic content
Verificationism and a causal account of meaning
Truth Rules, Hoverflies, and the Kripke-Wittgenstein Paradox
Wright on Functions
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,72 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2024 (28) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |