Language, Thought and Other Biological Categories: New Foundations for Realism

Type

Book

Authors

Ruth Garrett Millikan

ISBN 10

0262131951

ISBN 13

9780262131957

Tags

Foreign Language Study & Reference, Words, Language & Grammar, Cognitive Psychology, New, Used & Rental Textbooks

Description

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. A Bradford Book - from Amzon

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