Open AccessBurge on Representation and Biological Function
Author(s) -
Vicente Agustín
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
thought: a journal of philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.429
H-Index - 8
ISSN - 2161-2234
DOI - 10.1002/tht3.18
Subject(s) - representation (politics) , function (biology) , computer science , biology , evolutionary biology , political science , politics , law
In Origins of Objectivity , Burge presents three arguments against what he calls ‘deflationism’: the project of explaining the representational function in terms of the notion of biological function. I evaluate these arguments and argue that they are not convincing.
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