| Edition |
1st MIT Press pbk. ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 387 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Bradford Bks.
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Bradford Bks.
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| Note |
"A Bradford book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-372) and index. |
| Summary |
"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. |
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The title essay discusses meaning rationalism and argues that rationality is not in the head, indeed, that there is no legitimate interpretation under which logical possibility and necessity are known a priori. In other essays, Millikan clarifies her views on the nature of mental representation, explores whether human thought is a product of natural selection, examines the nature of behavior as studied by the behavioral sciences, and discusses the issues of individualism in psychology, psychological explanation, indexicality in thought, what knowledge is, and the realism/antirealism debate."--Pub. desc. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cognition -- Philosophy.
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Cognition -- Philosophy. |
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Cognition. |
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Psychobiology.
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Psychobiology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Millikan, Ruth Garrett. White Queen psychology and other essays for Alice. 1st MIT Press pbk. ed. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1995, ©1993 0262132885 (DLC) 92024024 (OCoLC)37904494 |
| ISBN |
0585022526 (electronic book) |
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9780585022529 (electronic book) |
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0262132885 |
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0262631628 |
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9780262631624 |
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9780262132886 |
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