Ruth Garrett Millikan

On Clear and Confused Ideas

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Millikan provides the first in-depth discussion on the psychological act of reidentification.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 602g
• ISBN-13: 9780521623865
• ISBN-10: 0521623863
• Artikelnr.: 35453148

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introducing substance concepts
2. Substances: the ontology
3. Classifying, identifying, and the function of substance concepts
4. The nature of abilities: how is extension determined?
5. More mama, more milk and more mouse: the structure and development of substance concepts
6. Substance concepts through language: knowing the meanings of words
7. How we make our ideas clear: epistemology for empirical concepts
8. Content and vehicle in perception
9. Sames versus sameness in conceptual contents and vehicles
10. Grasping sameness
11. In search of Strawsonian modes of presentation
12. Rejecting identity judgments and Fregean modes
13. Knowing what I'm thinking of
14. How extensions of new substance concepts are fixed: how substance concepts acquire intentionality
15. Cognitive luck: substance concepts in an evolutionary frame
Appendices
References
Index.