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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100198717202
ISBN-139780198717201
eBay Product ID (ePID)26038264431
Product Key Features
Number of Pages248 Pages
Publication NameBeyond concepts : Unicepts, Language, and Natural Information
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2019
SubjectIndividual Philosophers, General, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Metaphysics
TypeTextbook
AuthorRuth Garrett Millikan
Subject AreaPhilosophy, Psychology
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight13.7 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2017-941116
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"Beyond Concepts is an impressive work of systematic philosophy." -- Mikio Akagi, The Philosophical Quarterly
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal121
Table Of ContentPart 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
SynopsisRuth 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.
LC Classification NumberBD331
