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Ideas of Peter Schulte, by Text

[Swiss, fl. 2023, at the University of Zurich.]

2023 Mental Content
08.1 p.59 Naturalist accounts of representation must match the views of cognitive science
2.4 p.3 Phenomenal and representational character may have links, or even be united
3.2 p.13 On the whole, referential content is seen as broad, and sense content as narrow
4 p.19 Naturalistic accounts of content cannot rely on primitive mental or normative notions
4 p.19 Naturalists must explain both representation, and what is represented
4.1 p.22 Cause won't explain content, because one cause can produce several contents
4.2 p.28 Information theories say content is information, such as smoke making fire probable
4.4 p.34 Teleosemantics explains content in terms of successful and unsuccessful functioning
4.4 p.34 Teleosemantic explanations say content is the causal result of naturally selected functions
4.5 p.41 Conceptual role semantics says content is determined by cognitive role
6 p.44 Maybe we can explain mental content in terms of phenomenal properties
6 p.50 Some explanations offer to explain a mystery by a greater mystery