Citation

Artiga DM. Stud. Hist. Philos. Biol. Biomed. Sci. 2020; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Universitat de València, Av. Blasco Ibàñez, 30, Departament de Filosofia, 46010, Valencia, Valencia, Spain. Electronic address: marc.artiga@uv.es.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.shpsc.2020.101284

PMID

32331766

Abstract

There has recently been an explosion of formal models of signaling, which have been developed in order to learn about different aspects of meaning. This paper discusses whether that success can also be used to provide an original naturalistic theory of meaning in terms of information or some related notion. In particular, it argues that, although these models can teach us a lot about different aspects of content, at the moment they fail to support the idea that meaning just is some kind of information. As an alternative, I suggest a more modest approach to the relationship between the informational notions used in models and semantic properties in the natural world.

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Language: en