A Mark of the Mental: In Defense of Informational Teleosemantics

by Karen Neander

Drawing on insights from causal theories of reference, teleosemantics, and state space semantics, a theory of naturalized mental representation.

In A Mark of the Mental, Karen Neander considers the representational power of mental states--described by the cognitive scientist Zenon Pylyshyn as the "second hardest puzzle" of philosophy of mind (the first being consciousness). The puzzle at the heart of the book is sometimes called "the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262036142
• ISBN13: 9780262036146
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher