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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815690703321

Autore

Fodor Jerry A.

Titolo

Minds without meanings : an essay on the content of concepts / / Jerry A. Fodor and Zenon W. Pylyshyn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2014]

©2015

ISBN

0-262-32033-9

0-262-52981-5

0-262-32032-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (202 pages)

Disciplina

121/.4

Soggetti

Concepts

Reference (Philosophy)

Representation (Philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Working assumptions -- Concepts misconstrued -- Contrarian semantics -- Reference within the perceptual circle: experimental evidence for mechanisms of perceptual reference -- Reference beyond the perceptual circle.

Sommario/riassunto

Two prominent thinkers argue for the possibility of a theory of concepts that takes reference to be concepts' sole semantic property.