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Millikan earned her PhD from Yale University where she studied under Wilfred Sellars . She and Paul Churchland are often considered leading proponents of "right wing" (i.e., individualistic) Sellarsianism. Millikan's most distinctive position, "Teleosemantics," seeks to account for semantic meaning through evolutionary explanations. Millikan taught at the University Of Michigan and for several years at the University Of Connecticut , where she is now professor emeritus. In Ruth Millikan's article, "Naturalist Reflections on Knowledge", she defends the position that the justification of true beliefs through an explanation in accordance with evolution constitutes knowledge. FURTHER READING Millikan has published five books,
two collections of papers
and many articles, many of which are listed here and available (in draft form) here . SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |