Varieties of meaning : the 2002 Jean Nicod lectures / Ruth Garrett Millikan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Millikan, Ruth Garrett.

Series:

Jean Nicod lectures.

The Jean Nicod lectures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Meaning (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How the various things that are said to have meaning-purpose, natural signs, linguistic signs, perceptions, and thoughts-are related to one another.

Contents:

Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; I Purposes and Cross-purposes; 1 Purposes and Cross-purposes of Humans; 2 Purposes and Cross-purposes of Memes; II Natural Signs and Intentional Signs; 3 Local Natural Signs and Information; 4 Productivity and Embedding in Natural Signs; 5 Teleosemantic Theories; 6 Intentionality; 7 Intensionality; III Outer Intentional Signs; 8 Linguistic Signs Emerge from Natural Signs; 9 Direct Perception through Language; 10 Tracking the Domains of Conventional Signs; 11 Varieties of the Semantics-Pragmatics Distinction

12 Demonstratives, Indexicals, and a Bit More about DescriptionsIV Inner Intentional Signs; 13 Inner Pushmi-pullyus; 14 Detaching Representations of Objects; 15 Space and Time; 16 Detaching Goal State Representations; 17 Generating Goal State Representations; 18 Limitations on Nonhuman Thought; 19 Conjectures on Human Thought; References; Index

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

"A Bradford book".

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-235) and index.

ISBN:

0-262-31171-2

1-282-09849-7

9786612098499

0-262-27989-4

1-4294-1308-5

OCLC:

76064390