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Mind and language, 1972-2010 / Stephen Stich.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stich, Stephen P., author.
- Series:
- Stich, Stephen P. 2011. Selections.
- Collected papers ; v.1
- Standardized Title:
- Selections. 2011
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy of mind.
- Language and languages--Philosophy.
- Language and languages.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 361 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume collects the best and most influential essays that Stephen Stich has published in the last 40 years on topics in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language. They discuss a wide range of topics including grammar, innateness, reference, folk psychology, eliminativism, connectionism, evolutionary psychology, simulation theory, social construction, and psychopathology. However, they are unified by two central concerns. The first is the viability of the commonsense conception of the mind in the face of challenges posed by both philosophical arguments and empirical findings. T
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Grammar, Psychology, and Indeterminacy; 2. The Idea of Innateness; 3. Beliefs and Subdoxastic States; 4. Autonomous Psychology and the Belief-Desire Thesis; 5. Dennett on Intentional Systems; 6. Connectionism, Eliminativism, and the Future of Folk Psychology; 7. Connectionism and Three Levels of Nativism; 8. Narrow Content Meets Fat Syntax; 9. Folk Psychology: Simulation or Tacit Theory?; 10. Intentionality and Naturalism; 11. What Is Folk Psychology?; 12. The Flight to Reference, or How Not to Make Progress in the Philosophy of Science
- 13. The Odd Couple: The Compatibility of Social Construction and Evolutionary Psychology14. Darwin in the Madhouse: Evolutionary Psychology and the Classification of Mental Disorders; 15. Folk Psychology; 16. Semantics, Cross-Cultural Style; 17. Against Arguments from Reference.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-045360-5
- 0-19-026751-8
- 1-283-22301-5
- 9786613223012
- 0-19-978059-5
- OCLC:
- 746747098
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