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14th November 2007 Dr. Richard Gray (Cardiff) Abstract. This paper focuses on a problem for reductive externalist versions of representationalism involving the determination of experiential content. The problem of aspectual shape arises when a perceptual system indicates two properties but can only represent one of them. In the first instance, I explain how the problem arises in Dretske's teleological version of representationalism and place it within the context of a central debate in teleological semantics concerning the determination of content. Then I introduce a novel example of the problem of aspectual shape for which, I go on to argue, neither Tye's causal co-variation nor Dretske's teleological versions of representationalism provide a satisfactory response. I conclude by noting a further consequence: contra Dretske, reductive externalist versions of representationalism are not always able to tell us what it is like to sense via an unusual sensory modality. With best wishes, Richard Dr. Richard Menary Lecturer in Philosophy and Research Seminar Convenor The University of Wollongong Personal <http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/selpl/philosophy/UOW025977.html> Webpage Book: Cognitive Integration Available now from: Palgrave <http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=275285> Macmillan and Amazon <http://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Integration-Mind-Cognition-Unbounded/dp/140 398977X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-0660778-1972653?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190152573&s r=8-1>
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