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The Information-Processing Perspective on Categorization
Categorization behavior can be fruitfully analyzed in terms of the trade-off between as high as possible faithfulness in the …
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Synergic Kinds
According to the homeostatic property cluster family of accounts, one of the main conditions for groups of properties to count as …
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Representations are Rate-Distortion Sweet Spots
Information is widely perceived as essential to the study of communication and representation; still, theorists working on these topics …
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Deception as Cooperation
I develop a rate-distortion analysis of signaling games with imperfect common interest. Sender and receiver should be seen as jointly …
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Usefulness Drives Representations to Truth
An important objection to signaling approaches to representation is that, if signaling behavior is driven by the maximization of …
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Informationally-Connected Property Clusters, and Polymorphism
I present and defend a novel version of the homeostatic property cluster (HPC) account of natural kinds. The core of the proposal is a …
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