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Moreover, the behaviours that parents use to give appropriate cues to their eggs, and some of the products of those behaviours, such as nests of rotting vegetation which maintain a suitable temperature range, are designed by natural selection to ensure the correct sex-ratio in offspring, so the teleosemantic program can be applied to them too.

The Distinction Between Innate and Acquired Characteristics Griffiths, Paul 2009

Yet another possibility would be to combine computational and teleosemantic ideas for rule following at the level of mental representation.

The Normativity of Meaning and Content Glüer, Kathrin 2009

The idea of a teleosemantic approach to genetic information was developed in an early form by Sterelny, Smith, and Dickison

Biological Information Godfrey-Smith, Peter 2007

These include Millikan's teleosemantic theory (1984), and Skyrms (1996) treatment of signaling systems in evolutionary game theoretic terms.

Biological Information Godfrey-Smith, Peter 2007

If natural selection has not yet operated on them, then Maynard Smith's teleosemantic theory implies they do not contain information.

Molecular Genetics Waters, Ken 2007

Other criticisms challenge applications of particular conceptions or theories of information, including applications of the causal and teleosemantic conceptions.

Molecular Genetics Waters, Ken 2007

Such theories are called “teleosemantic” theories in virtue of the connection between design or teleology and content.

Intentionality Jacob, Pierre 2003

A second influential proposal for dealing with the difficulties left pending by the information-theoretic approach and for showing that some non-mental things can exhibit intentionality has been Ruth Millikan's (1984, 1993, 2000) teleosemantic approach.

Intentionality Jacob, Pierre 2003

Sure, his theories are wrong, and his overall philosophy of teleology in biological cases (not, I hasten to add, in his physics) is unnecessary now we have teleosemantic explanations (i.e., natural selection), but he is not the moron of popular history of biology; far from it.

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