Language, thought, and other biological categories : new foundations for realism

Author(s)

• Millikan, Ruth Garrett

Bibliographic Information

Language, thought, and other biological categories : new foundations for realism

Ruth Garrett Millikan

（Bradford book）

MIT Press, c1984

• : pbk

Note

"A Bradford book."

Bibliography: p. [335]-343

Includes indexes

Description and Table of Contents

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

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Details

• NCID: BA00853878
• ISBN:
  • 0262131951
  • 0262631156
• LCCN: 83022276
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: x, 355 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : P106
  • DC19 : 401
  • NDC8 : 801.01
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Languages -- Philosophy
  • LCSH : Semantics (Philosophy)
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00245453