Bio-semantics, ecology and content ascription

Advocates of bio-semantics propose that the content of representations be fixed with reference to their biological function. A legitimate plurality of etiological functions for a given representation, however, stands in the way of fixing content. Attempts to overcome this problem for content ascript...

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Rosas, Alejandro
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2011
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
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Bio-semantics
Content
Etiological functions
Ecology
Neander
Representations
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title Bio-semantics, ecology and content ascription
spellingShingle Bio-semantics, ecology and content ascription
Bio-semantics
Content
Etiological functions
Ecology
Neander
Representations
title_short Bio-semantics, ecology and content ascription
title_full Bio-semantics, ecology and content ascription
title_fullStr Bio-semantics, ecology and content ascription
title_full_unstemmed Bio-semantics, ecology and content ascription
title_sort Bio-semantics, ecology and content ascription
dc.creator.fl_str_mv Rosas, Alejandro
dc.contributor.author.spa.fl_str_mv Rosas, Alejandro
dc.subject.proposal.spa.fl_str_mv Bio-semantics
Content
Etiological functions
Ecology
Neander
Representations
topic Bio-semantics
Content
Etiological functions
Ecology
Neander
Representations
description Advocates of bio-semantics propose that the content of representations be fixed with reference to their biological function. A legitimate plurality of etiological functions for a given representation, however, stands in the way of fixing content. Attempts to overcome this problem for content ascription with a counterfactual argument have been accused of misusing the selection for/selection of distinction. I reconstruct the counterfactual argument in the context of the constraints on evolutionary design that underlie an ecological theory of selection pressures. I then argue that these constraints assign a modest role to etiological function in a method for content ascription. But it requires abandoning the claim that a priori thinking in terms of etiological function will solve content ascription; in particular, it cannot replace cognitive theory and experimentation. As behavioural ecologists have warned, biological functions should not be too quickly translated into proximate, in particular perceptual, mechanisms.
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