CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Kelly, Peter John |
|---|---|
| Title | SAVING SWAMPMAN'S MIND: PHYSICAL INTENTIONALITY WITHOUT HISTORY |
| Summary | Physicalist theories of intentionality have tended in recent years to seek to explain the aboutness of the mental in terms of evolution and evolutionary function. This move allows philosophers to get a handle on the basic problem of intentionality: if mental content is about something, then it seems to have a certain purpose, or teleology, to it. Evolution via natural selection gives the physicalist a scientifically respectable method of pointing to purpose in the natural world. In what follows I will be following suit by adopting a teleological approach to mental content and intentionality, but without the historical requirements associated with those theories. |
| Supervisor | Katalin Farkas |
| Department | Philosophy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/kelly_peter.pdf |
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