White Queen psychology and other essays for Alice / Ruth Garrett Millikan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Millikan, Ruth Garrett.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognition--Philosophy.

Cognition.

Psychobiology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 387 pages).

Edition:

1st MIT Press pbk. ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1995, ©1993.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"A Bradford book."

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-27990-8

0-585-02252-6

OCLC:

42328928