Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories: New Foundations for RealismBeginning with a general theory of function applied to body organs, behaviors, customs, and both inner and outer representations, Ruth Millikan argues that the intentionality of language can be described without reference to speaker intentions and that an understanding of the intentionality of thought can and should be divorced from the problem of understanding consciousness. The results support a realist theory of truth and of universals, and open the way for a nonfoundationalist and nonholistic approach to epistemology. A Bradford Book |
Contents
Chapter | 8 |
Chapter 1 | 17 |
Adapted Devices and Adapted and Derived Proper Functions | 39 |
Chapter 4 | 56 |
Language Device Types Dictionary Senses Stabilizing Proper | 71 |
Chapter 5 | 85 |
Chapter 7 | 115 |
Case Studies of Intensions Senses | 127 |
Represented Referents and Protoreferents | 193 |
Quotation Marks Says That and Believes That | 207 |
Chapter 14 | 221 |
Chapter 15 | 239 |
Chapter 16 | 254 |
Chapter 17 | 277 |
Chapter 18 | 297 |
Concepts Laws and Intrusive | 311 |
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Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories: New Foundations for Realism Ruth Garrett Millikan No preview available - 1987 |
Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories: New Foundations for Realism Ruth Garrett Millikan No preview available - 1987 |
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