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Review of Karen Neander’s A Mark of the Mental: In Defense of Informational Teleosemantics

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NeanderKaren, A Mark of the Mental: In Defense of Informational Teleosemantics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (2017), 344 pp., $40.00 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Justin Garson
Justin Garson*
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Hunter College–CUNY
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* To contact the author, please write to: Department of Philosophy, Hunter College of the City University of New York, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065; e-mail: jgarson@hunter.cuny.edu.
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 85 , Issue 4 , October 2018 , pp. 726 - 734
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