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Beyond concepts : unicepts, language, and natural information /
Ruth Garrett Millikan presents a highly original account of cognition - of how we get to grips with the world in thought. The question at the heart of her book is Kant's 'How is knowledge possible?', but answered from a contemporary naturalist standpoint. The starting assumption is th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2017]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Beyond Concepts: Unicepts, Language, and Natural Information; Copyright; Contents; Part I: Unicepts; Introduction to Part I; 0.1 Overview; 0.2 Selection Processes; 0.3 Ontology and Language; 0.4 Unicepts and Unitrackers; 0.5 Organization and Method; 0.6 Acknowledgments; 1: A Clumpy World; 1.1 Overview; 1.2 Real Kinds; 1.3 Reproduction and Mass Production; 1.4 Historical Kinds; 1.5 Individuals; 1.6 Eternal Kinds; 1.7 Shapes and Divisions of Historical Kind Clumps; 1.8 Real Categories; 2: Direct Reference for Extensional Terms; 2.1 Overview; 2.2 Conventions of Language.
- 2.3 Following Precedent2.4 Direct Reference to Clumps; 2.5 Identifying through Language; 2.6 Real Definitions; 2.7 Names for Properties; 2.8 Boundaries and Slippage; 2.9 Communication with Names for Clumps and Peaks; 3: Introducing Unitrackersand Unicepts; 3.1 Overview; 3.2 Initial Examples of Unitracker Function; 3.3 Discarding Concepts; 3.4 Details on the Nature and Function of Unicepts; 3.5 Life Span and Growth of Unitrackers and Unicepts; 3.6 How Names Connect with Unicepts; 3.7 The Role of Language in Unicept Development; 3.8 On Modeling Unicepts.
- 4: Functions of Same-Tracking4.1 Overview; 4.2 Perceptual Constancy Mechanisms; 4.3 Self-Relative Location Trackers; 4.4 Object Constancy; 4.5 Same-Tracking for Application of Unicept Templates; 4.6 Practical Stuffs and Affording Unicepts; 4.6.1 "Stuffs"; 4.6.2 Affording unicepts; 4.6.3 Affording unicepts for natural continua; 4.7 Factic Unicepts: Substantive and Attributive; 4.8 Two Closing Remarks; 5: How Unicepts Get Their Referents; 5.1 Overview; 5.2 How Unicept Referents Are Fixed: The Quarry; 5.3 Two General Principles Concerning Functions; 5.4 Imprinting.
- 5.5 More General Mechanisms for Priming Unitrackers5.6 Some Mechanisms that Set Targets, Specifically, for Affording Unicepts; 5.7 The Problem of Location-Detached Signs; 5.8 A Third General Principle: Proxy Functions; 5.9 Natural Epistemology for Substantive and Attributive Unicepts; 6: Misrepresentation, Redundancy, Equivocity, Emptiness (and Swampman); 6.1 Overview; 6.2 Failures of Biological Function; 6.3 False Beliefs; 6.4 Redundant Unitrackers and Fregean Senses; 6.5 Equivocepts; 6.6 Vacucepts; 6.7 How Unicepts Fit with Biosemantics; 6.8 Swampman; 7: Philosophical Analysis.
- Referents of Names: Theory Change Observation versus Theory; Theory of Mind; 7.1 Overview; 7.2 Philosophical Analysis; 7.3 Referents of Names; 7.4 Theory Change in Science; 7.5 Observation versus Theory; 7.6 "Theory of Mind"; Part II: Infosigns, Intentional Signs, and their Interpretation; 8: Introduction to Part II; 8.1 Overview; 8.2 Infosigns and Natural Information; 8.3 Infosigns and Intentional Signs; 8.4 Interpreting Linguistic Signs; 9: Indexicals and Selfsigns; 9.1 Overview; 9.2 Assumptions to be Questioned; 9.3 Components of Conventional Linguistic Signs.