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    Something counts as a mind only if it meets certain rational standards

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    • 1.Rationality is constitutive of the mental
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    • 2.Psychological attributions are only appropriate for entities that qualify as minds
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    • 1.Infants, severely cognitively impaired persons, and many non-human animals possess genuine mental states without satisfying robust rationality norms.
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    • 2.A theory of mind that excludes paradigm cases of minded beings is revisionary in a way that undermines its own credibility.
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    • 1.Fodor and Millikan demonstrate that mental content can be naturalized via causal-informational or teleosemantic relations, bypassing normative rationality constraints entirely.
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    • 2.If mental states are individuated by their causal-functional roles rather than rational coherence, rationality becomes an optional feature of minds rather than a constitutive one.
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    Rationality is claimed by Davidson to be constitutive of the mental in the sense that something only counts as being a mind—and thus an appropriate object of psychological attributions—if it meets up to certain rational standards. This constitutive idea is open to weaker and stronger interpretations. The weaker interpretation sees only very basic logical, semantic or conceptual constraints on understanding others—and thus what is constitutive of minds—which allows for significant variation as on
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