Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories: New Foundations for Realism
Ruth Garrett Millikan
Preface by Daniel C. Dennett Beginning with a general theory of function applied to body organs, behaviors, customs, and both inner and outer representations, Ruth Millikan argues that the intentionality of language can be described without reference to speaker intentions and that an understanding of the intentionality of thought can and should be divorced from the problem of understanding consciousness. The results support a realist theory of truth and of universals, and open the way for a nonfoundationalist and nonholistic approach to epistemology.Ruth Millikan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. A Bradford Book.
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Ano:
1987
Editora:
The MIT Press
Idioma:
english
Páginas:
367
ISBN 10:
0262631156
ISBN 13:
9780262631150
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PDF, 37.14 MB
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english, 1987