Deconstructing Dennett's Darwin
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Summary
It is argued that Dennett's empirical assumptions about the evolution of psychological phenotypes may well be unwarranted; and that the intentionality of minds is quite different from, and not reducible to, the intensionality of selection.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 1996-09-01
- Cited by
- 31
- References
- 6
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Keywords
Intentionality, Darwin (ADL), Darwinism, Teleology, Epistemology
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