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    Brand new: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See the ...
    Artist
    Millikan, Ruth Garrett
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    EAN
    9780198717201
    ISBN
    0198717202
    Release Title
    Beyond Concepts: Unicepts, Language, and Natural Information
    Book Title
    Beyond Concepts: Unicepts, Language, and Natural Information
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    Publisher
    Oxford University Press, Incorporated
    ISBN-10
    0198717202
    ISBN-13
    9780198717201
    eBay Product ID (ePID)
    26038264431

    Product Key Features

    Number of Pages
    248 Pages
    Publication Name
    Beyond concepts : Unicepts, Language, and Natural Information
    Language
    English
    Publication Year
    2019
    Subject
    Individual Philosophers, General, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Metaphysics
    Type
    Textbook
    Author
    Ruth Garrett Millikan
    Subject Area
    Philosophy, Psychology
    Format
    Trade Paperback

    Dimensions

    Item Height
    0.5 in
    Item Weight
    13.7 Oz
    Item Length
    9.2 in
    Item Width
    6.1 in

    Additional Product Features

    Intended Audience
    Scholarly & Professional
    LCCN
    2017-941116
    Dewey Edition
    23
    Reviews
    "Beyond Concepts is an impressive work of systematic philosophy." -- Mikio Akagi, The Philosophical Quarterly
    Illustrated
    Yes
    Dewey Decimal
    121
    Table Of Content
    Part IIntroduction to Part I1. A Clumpy World2. Direct Reference for Extensional Terms3. Introducing Unitrackers and Unicepts4. Functions of Same-Tracking5. How Unicepts Get Their Referents6. Misrepresentation, Redundancy, Equivocity, Emptiness (and Swampman)7. Some ImplicationsPart II8. Introduction to Part II9. Indexicals and Self-Signs10. An Anatomy of Signs11. Infosigns and Natural Information12. Intentional Signs13. Linguistic Signs14. Perception, Especially Perception through Language15. Markers of Identity and Grounded Infosigns16. Out-side Pragmatics: Descriptions, Quantifiers, DirectivesGlossary
    Synopsis
    Ruth Garrett Millikan presents a strikingly original account of how we get to grips with the world in thought. Her question is Kant's 'How is knowledge possible?', answered from a contemporary naturalist standpoint. We begin with an understanding of what the world is like prior to cognition, then develop a theory of cognition within that world., 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 that we are evolved creatures that use cognition as a guide in dealing with the natural world, and that the natural world is roughly as natural science has tried to describe it. Very unlike Kant, then, we must begin with ontology, with a rough understanding of what the world is like prior to cognition, only later developing theories about the nature of cognition within that world and how it manages to reflect the rest of nature. And in trying to get from ontology to cognition we must traverse another non-Kantian domain: questions about the transmission of information both through natural signs and through purposeful signs including, especially, language. Millikan makes a number of innovations. Central to the book is her introduction of the ideas of unitrackers and unicepts, whose job is to recognize the same again as manifested through the jargon of experience. She offers a direct reference theory for common nouns and other extensional terms; a naturalist sketch of conceptual development; a theory of natural information and of language function that shows how properly functioning language carries natural information; a novel description of the semantics/pragmatics distinction; a discussion of perception as translation from natural informational signs; new descriptions of indexicals, demonstratives and intensional contexts; and a new analysis of the reference of incomplete descriptions., 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 that we are evolved creatures that use cognition as a guide in dealing with the natural world, and that the natural world is roughly as natural science has tried to describe it. Very unlike Kant, then, we must begin with ontology, with a rough understanding of what the world is like prior to cognition, only later developing theories about the nature of cognition within that world and how it manages to reflect the rest of nature. And in trying to get from ontology to cognition we must traverse another non-Kantian domain: questions about the transmission of information both through natural signs and through purposeful signs including, especially, language. Millikan makes a number of innovations. Central to the book is her introduction of the ideas of unitrackers and unicepts, whose job is to recognize the same again as manifested through the jargon of experience. She offers a direct reference theory for common nouns and other extensional terms; a naturalist sketch of conceptual development; a theory of natural information and of language function that shows how properly functioning language carries natural information; a novel description of the semantics/pragmatics distinction; a discussion of perception as translation from natural informational signs; new descriptions of indexicals, demonstratives and intensional contexts; and a new analysis of the reference of incomplete descriptions.
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    BD331

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