Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories: New Foundations for Realism

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MIT Press, Dec 16, 1987 - Psychology - 367 pages
Beginning 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.

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Contents

Chapter 1
17
Chapter 2
39
Chapter 4
71
Chapter 5
85
Chapter 7
115
Chapter 8
127
Chapter 9
147
PART III
158
Two More Kinds of Indefinite Description
221
Chapter 15
239
Chapter 16
257
Chapter 17
283
Chapter 18
297
Chapter 19
311
Epilogue
325
Notes
335

Chapter 11
175
Chapter 12
193
Chapter 13
207

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Ruth Garrett Millikan is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories (MIT Press, 1984) and White Queen Psychology and Other Essays for Alice (MIT Press, 1995) and On Clear and Confused Ideas.

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