Varieties of meaning : the 2002 Jean Nicod lectures /

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How the various things that are said to have meaning-purpose, natural signs, linguistic signs, perceptions, and thoughts-are related to one another.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Millikan, Ruth Garrett
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004.
©2004
Series:Jean Nicod lectures.
Bradford book.
Subjects:
Meaning (Philosophy)
Symbolism
Signification (Philosophie)
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
Betekenis.
Intenties.
Tekens.
Mentale representatie.
PHILOSOPHY/General
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Purposes and cross-purposes of humans
  • 2. Purposes and cross-purposes of memes
  • 3. Local natural signs and information
  • 4. Productivity and embedding in natural signs
  • 5. Teleosemantic theories
  • 6. Intentionality
  • 7. Intensionality
  • 8. Linguistic signs emerge from natural signs
  • 9. Direct perception through language
  • 10. Tracking the domains of conventional signs
  • 11. Varieties of the semantics-pragmatics distinction
  • 12. Demonstratives, indexicals, and a bit more about descriptions
  • 13. Inner pushmi-pullyus
  • 14. Detaching representations of objects
  • 15. Space and time
  • 16. Detaching goal state representations
  • 17. Generating goal state representations
  • 18. Limitations on nonhuman thought
  • 19. Conjectures on human thought.

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