White Queen psychology and other essays for Alice /

"This collection of essays serves both as an introduction to Ruth Millikan's much-discussed volume Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories and as an extension and application of Millikan's central themes, especially in the philosophy of psychology

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Millikan, Ruth Garrett
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1995, ©1993.
Edition:1st MIT Press pbk. ed.
Subjects:
Cognition > Philosophy.
Psychobiology.
Cognition > Philosophie.
Psychobiologie.
SCIENCE > Cognitive Science.
PSYCHOLOGY > Cognitive Psychology.
Cognition > Philosophy
Psychobiology
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • In defense of proper functions
  • Propensities, exaptations, and the brain
  • Thoughts without laws
  • Biosemantics
  • On mentalese orthography, part
  • Compare and contrast Dretske, Fodor, and Millikan on teleosemantics
  • What is behavior? a philosophical essay on ethology and individualism in psychology, part
  • The green grass growing all around: a philosophical essay on ethology and individualism in psychology, part
  • Explanation in biopsychology
  • Metaphysical antirealism?
  • Truth rules, hoverflies, and the Kripke-Wittgenstein paradox
  • Naturalist reflections on knowledge
  • The myth of the essential indexical
  • White queen psychology; or, the last myth of the given.

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