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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789757103321

Autore

Stich Stephen P

Titolo

Mind and language, 1972-2010 [[electronic resource] /] / Stephen Stich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-19-045360-5

0-19-026751-8

1-283-22301-5

9786613223012

0-19-978059-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 p.)

Collana

Collected papers ; ; v.1

Disciplina

128.2

191

Soggetti

Philosophy of mind

Language and languages - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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; Name Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

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