Beyond Concepts Unicepts, Language, and Natural Information
by Millikan, Ruth GarrettFormat: eBook
Pub. Date: 2017-10-19
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Author Biography
Ruth Garrett Millikan, Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of Connecticut
Ruth Garrett Millikan is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Connecticut. She was raised in the college town of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, and educated at Oberlin College and Yale University. She is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Winner of the 2017 Rescher Prize for Systematic Philosophy. She is also the winner of the 2017 Rolf Shock Prize in Logic and Philosophy. Her other books are Language, Thought and Other Biological Categories (1984), White Queen Psychology and Other Essays for Alice (1993), On Clear and Confused Ideas (2000), Varieties of Meaning (2004), and Language: A Biological Model (2005).
Table of Contents
Part I
0. Introduction to Part I
1. A Clumpy World
2. Direct Reference for Extensional Terms
3. Introducing Unitrackers and Unicepts
4. Functions of Same-Tracking
5. How Unicepts Get Their Referents
6. Misrepresentation, Redundancy, Equivocity, Emptiness (and Swampman)
7. Some Implications
Part II
8. Introduction to Part II
9. Indexicals and Self-Signs
10. An Anatomy of Signs
11. Infosigns and Natural Information
12. Intentional Signs
13. Linguistic Signs
14. Perception, Especially Perception through Language
15. Markers of Identity and Grounded Infosigns
16. Out-side Pragmatics: Descriptions, Quantifiers, Directives
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