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 |
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Contents
Chapter 1 | 17 |
Chapter 2 | 39 |
Chapter 4 | 56 |
Language Device Types Dictionary Senses Stabilizing Proper | 71 |
Chapter 5 | 85 |
Chapter 7 | 115 |
Chapter 8 | 127 |
Chapter 9 | 147 |
Quotation Marks Says That and Believes That | 207 |
Chapter 14 | 221 |
Chapter 15 | 239 |
Chapter 16 | 257 |
Chapter 17 | 283 |
Chapter 18 | 297 |
Chapter 19 | 311 |
Epilogue | 325 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories: New Foundations for Realism A Bradford book |
| Author | Ruth Garrett Millikan |
| Edition | reprint, revised |
| Publisher | MIT Press, 1984 |
| ISBN | 0262631156, 9780262631150 |
| Length | 355 pages |
| Subjects | › Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition |
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