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Burge on Representation and Biological Function
Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 1 (2):125-133 (2012)
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In Origins of Objectivity, Burge presents three arguments against what he calls ‘deflationism’: the project of explaining the representational function in terms of the notion of biological function. I evaluate these arguments and argue that they are not convincingAuthor's Profile
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