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On clear and confused ideas : an essay about substance concepts /
Written by one of today's most creative and innovative philosophers, Ruth Garrett Millikan, this book examines basic empirical concepts; how they are acquired, how they function, and how they have been misrepresented in the traditional philosophical literature.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in philosophy.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Introducing Substance Concepts; 2 Substances: The Ontology; 3 Classifying, Identifying, and the Function of Substance Concepts; 4 The Nature of Abilities: How Is Extension Determined?; 5 More Mama, More Milk and More Mouse: The Structure and Development of Substance Concepts; 6 Substance Concepts Through Language: Knowing the Meanings of Words; 7 How We Make Our Ideas Clear: Epistemology for Empirical Concepts; 8 Content and Vehicle in Perception; 9 Sames versus Sameness in Conceptual Contents and Vehicles.
- 10 Grasping Sameness11 In Search of Strawsonian Modes of Presentation; 12 Rejecting Identity Judgments and Fregean Modes; 13 Knowing What I m Thinking Of; 14 How Extensions of New Substance Concepts are Fixed: How Substance Concepts Acquire Intentionality; 15 Cognitive Luck: Substance Concepts in an Evolutionary Frame; Appendix A Contrast with Evans on Information Based Thoughts; Appendix B What Has Natural Information to Do with I.