NDLI: Content, Control and Display: The Natural Origins of Content

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Sterelny, Kim
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Hutto and Satne identify three research traditions attempting to explain the place of intentional agency in a wholly natural world: naturalistic reduction; sophisticated behaviourism, and pragmatism, and suggest that insights from all three are necessary. While agreeing with that general approach, I develop a somewhat different package, offering an outline of a vindicating genealogy of our interpretative practices. I suggest that these practices had their original foundation in the elaboration of much more complex representation-guided control structures in our lineage and the support and amplification of those control structures through external resources. Cranes (as Dennett calls them) became increasingly important in the explanation of systematically successful action. These more complex representational engines coevolved with selection to detect and respond to the control structures of others. Since much of that selection was driven by the advantages of cooperation and coordination, in part these control structures were co-opted as external signals and guarantees, in cooperation and coordination. As the time depth of cooperation and co-ordination extended, these public signals of belief and intent acquired secondary functions, as mechanisms to stabilise and structure control systems, making humans not just more transparent to one another at a time, but more predictable over time. Mindshaping, not just mindreading, became increasingly important in our lineage.
Starting Page	549
Ending Page	564
Page Count	16
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00483893
Journal	Philosophia
Volume Number	43
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15749274
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-07-25
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Mindreading Mindshaping Teleosemantics Theories of content Dennett Mental representation Philosophy Epistemology Ethics Philosophy of Language Philosophy of Mind Philosophy of Science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy

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