Still UnsuccessfulThe Unsolved Problems of Success Semantics

  1. Javier González de Prado Salas
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Theoria: an international journal for theory, history and foundations of science

ISSN: 0495-4548

Argitalpen urtea: 2018

Alea: 33

Zenbakia: 1

Orrialdeak: 5-22

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DOI: 10.1387/THEORIA.17736 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Success semantics is a theory of content that characterizes the truth-conditions of mental representations in terms of the success-conditions of the actions derived from them. Nanay (Philos Stud 165(1): 151-165, 2013) and Dokic and Engel (Frank Ramsey London: Routledge, 2003) have revised this theory in order to defend it from the objections that assailed its previous incarnations. I argue that both proposals have seemingly decisive flaws. More specifically, these revised versions of the theory fail to deal adequately with the open-ended possibility of unforeseen obstacles for the success of our actions. I suggest that the problem of ignored obstacles undermines success semantics quite generally, including alternative formulations such as Blackburn’s.

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