American philosopher who developed an information-theoretic account of knowledge and a naturalistic account of mental content — mental states have the content they have because of their informational relations to the world.
Knowledge and the Flow of Information: knowledge is information-caused belief — S knows that P if S's belief that P is caused by the information that P. Naturalizing intentionality: mental representation is grounded in informational covariance — beliefs mean what they are nomically connected to. Relevant alternatives theory of knowledge.
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