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A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning.
A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning presents a profound and arresting integration of the faculties of the mind - of how we think, speak, and see the world. Ray Jackendoff starts out by looking at languages and what the meanings of words and sentences actually do. He shows that meanings are mo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
OUP Oxford,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Foreword; Part One. Language, Words, and Meaning; 1. Why do we need a User's Guide to thought and meaning?; 2. What's a language?; 3. Perspectives on English; 4. Perspectives on sunsets, tigers, and puddles; 5. What's a word?; 6. What counts as the same word?; 7. Some uses of mean and meaning; 8. "Objective" and "subjective" meaning; 9. What do meanings have to be able to do?; 10. Meanings can't be visual images; 11. Word meanings aren't cut and dried (You can't avoid the slippery slope); 12. Not all the meaning is in the words; 13. Meanings, concepts, and thoughts.
- 14. Does your language determine your thought?Part Two. Consciousness and Perception; 15. What's it like to be thinking?; 16. Some phenomena that test the Unconscious Meaning Hypothesis; 17. Conscious and unconscious; 18. What does "What is consciousness?" mean?; 19. Three cognitive correlates of conscious thought; 20. Some prestigious theories of consciousness; 21. What's it like to see things?; 22. Two components of thought and meaning; 23. Seeing something as a fork; 24. Other modalities of spatial perception; 25. How do we see the world as "out there"?; 26. Other "feels" in experience.
- Part Three. Reference and Truth27. How do we use language to talk about the world?; 28. Mismatching reference in conversation; 29. What kinds of things can we refer to? (Cognitive metaphysics, Lesson 1); 30. Reference files for pictures and thoughts; 31. More cognitive metaphysics: Persons; 32. What's truth?; 33. Problems for an ordinary perspective on truth; 34. What's it like to judge a sentence true?; 35. Noticing something's wrong; Part Four. Rationality and Intuition; 36. What's it like to be thinking rationally?; 37. How much rational thinking do we actually do?
- 38. How rational thinking helps39. Some pitfalls of apparently rational thinking; 40. Chamber music; 41. Rational thinking as a craft; 42. Some speculation on science and the arts; 43. Learning to live with multiple perspectives; References and further reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X.