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Meaning Making and the Mind of the Externalist

2010· book-chapter· en· W4380479210 on OpenAlex
Robert A. Wilson

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Bibliographic record

VenueThe MIT Press eBooks · 2010
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicClassical Philosophy and Thought
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersUniversity of Alberta
KeywordsExternalismMeaning (existential)Internalism and externalismPhilosophyEpistemologyPsychology

Abstract

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Intentionality and the MindDuring the 1980s, many philosophers of mind, and even the occasional cognitive scientist, were very exercised about something called "the problem of intentionality."The problem was something like this.There are certain things in the world that appear to possess, through their operation and functioning, a special kind of property: intentionality.This is the property of being about something, of having content about that thing, of carrying information about that thing.The problem of intentionality was threefold: to explain what intentionality was; to delineate which things had intentionality (and so which things didn't); and to provide an account of just why they had not only intentionality, but the particular intentionality they had-their content .The third of these chores was the core one, the task of specifying in virtue of what certain things in the world were about the particular things they were about.The problem of intentionality was especially pressing within the naturalistic view of the mind that motivated much of the discussion of the problem.The idea was to view naturalism as a kind of constraint on what could count as an acceptable endeavor to complete the core chore: that one's account of what made for intentionality could not itself rely on unexplicated intentional or semantic notions.An answer to the problem of intentionality must be given solely in terms of "naturalistically acceptable" notions, such as causation, counterfactual dependence, material composition, biological function, or phylogenetic history.To understand a little more about the problem of intentionality, we need to turn to its second part, the part that divides the world into things with intentionality and things without it.Two of the things that paradigmatically have intentionality are the language that people use to communicate, Meaning Making and the Mind of the Externalist

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.595
Threshold uncertainty score0.982

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.003
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.065
GPT teacher head0.231
Teacher spread0.166 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it