Varieties of Meaning: The 2002 Jean Nicod Lectures

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Embodied simulation: From neurons to phenomenal experience (2005, background): “Social meaning is primarily the object of practical concern, and not of theoretical judgement (see Millikan 2004).”
An Experimental Study of the Emergence of Human Communication Systems (2005, background): “…of the complex processes that interleaved the cognitive abilities of many individuals, over many generations, into a socially shared set of conventional behaviors and artifacts (A. Clark, 1997; de Saussure, 1916/1983; Hutchins, 1995; Millikan, 1984, 2004; Tomasello, 1999; Wittgenstein, 1953).”
The evolutionary nature of musical meaning (2009, background): “The present proposal has much in common with the “teleofunctionalism” proposed by Millikan (2004), in which meaning-carrying internal states arise in biological systems in response to biologically-significant event-types through processes of evolution; it does not differentiate between motivational…”
Affective Value in the Predictive Mind (2017, background): “However, because the whole hierarchical model is relevant to the organism (if it was not it would not have been formed), any prediction has cognitive (belief) and conative (desire) elements which cannot be disentangled (Millikan 2004).”