Natural Function and Perceptual Content
Philosophy Student
A Critical and Systematic Analysis of Andrew Rubner’s 2024 Rutgers Dissertation
With reconstructed arguments, original objections, and a sustained assessment of the nearly-all theory and its consequences for teleosemantics
ABSTRACT
Andrew Rubner’s 2024 doctoral dissertation develops two interrelated philosophical theories: an ahistorical, statistical account of natural function which he calls the nearly-all theory, and a teleosemantic account of perceptual content grounded in that function...