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Belief, information and semantic content: A naturalist's lament

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This paper was completed while I was on leave from Wesleyan University and affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a postdoctoral fellow. I am grateful to the department at the University of North Carolina for the warm and generous hospitality afforded me during my year there. I am grateful to Fred Dretske, Catherine Elgin, William Lycan, Jay Rosenberg and an anonymous referee for comments on earlier drafts. I am also grateful to Geoffrey Sayre McCord for hours of conversation on some of the topics covered in this essay.

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Taylor, K.A. Belief, information and semantic content: A naturalist's lament. Synthese 71, 97–124 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00486437

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