The Natural Origins of Content

Daniel Hutto; Glenda Lucila Satne

doi:10.1007/s11406-015-9644-0

The Natural Origins of Content

Daniel Hutto, Glenda Lucila Satne

Department of Communication

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Abstract

We review the current state of play in the game of naturalizing content and analyse reasons why each of the main proposals, when taken in isolation, is unsatisfactory. Our diagnosis is that if there is to be progress two fundamental changes are necessary. First, the point of the game needs to be reconceived in terms of explaining the natural origins of content. Second, the pivotal assumption that intentionality is always and everywhere contentful must be abandoned. Reviving and updating Haugeland’s baseball analogy in the light of these changes, we propose ways of redirecting the efforts of players on each base of his intentionality All-Star team, enabling them to start functioning effectively as a team. Only then is it likely that they will finally get their innings and maybe, just maybe, even win the game.

Original language	English
Journal	Philosophia
Volume	43
Issue number	3
Pages (from-to)	521-536
Number of pages	16
ISSN	0048-3893
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-015-9644-0
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2015

Keywords

Faculty of Humanities
Content
Mental representation
Intentionality
Biosemantics
Neo-Pragmatism
Intentional stance

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