Millikan and her critics [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Dan Ryder, Justine Kingsbury, and Kenneth Williford

• Pubblicazione: Malden, Mass., : John Wiley & Sons, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (317 p.)
• Disciplina: 191
• Altri autori: RyderDan (Thomas Daniel) KingsburyJustine WillifordKenneth
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Millikan and Her Critics; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; A Millikan Bibliography; Introduction; Proper Functions; Representations: The Basic Teleosemantic Framework; Concepts; Externalism, Language, and Meaning Rationalism; 1 Toward an Informational Teleosemantics; Introduction; Response Functions; Information and Singular Causation; The Functions of Sensory Representations; The Contents of Sensory Representations: The Problem of Error; The Contents of Sensory Representation: The Distality Problem; Reply to Neander; 2 Signals, Icons, and Beliefs; Introduction ; Senders and ReceiversContent; States of the Mind and Brain; Reply to Godfrey-Smith; 3 Millikan's Isomorphism Requirement; Introduction; Isomorphism and Functional Isomorphism; Millikan's Reliance on Functional Isomorphism; Isomorphisms and Productivity; Exploiting 1-1 Maps Which Preserve Natural Relations; Conclusion; Reply to Shea; 4 Millikan on Honeybee Navigation and Communication; Insect Cognition; The Science of Honeybee Navigation and Communication; Honeybee cognitive maps?; The waggle dance; Representation and Truth-Conditions; Millikan's teleosemantics ; Differences in explanatory structurePsychological Structure; Pushmi-Pullyu Representations; Folk Psychology as an Explanatory Paradigm; Reply to Rescorla; 5 Concepts: Useful for Thinking; Abilities; Concepts; Conclusion; Reply to Antony; 6 Properties Over Substance; Reply to Fumerton; 7 Millikan's Historical Kinds; Introduction: Russell's Natural Kinds; Is Biological Homeostasis Historical?; Intrinsic Properties Redux; Population Structure; Conclusion: Are Species Duplicable?; Reply to Matthen; 8 Millikan, Realism, and Sameness; I; II; III; IV; Reply to Elder ; 9 Craning the Ultimate Skyhook: Millikan on the Law of NoncontradictionIntroduction and Conspectus: Naturalizing the Logical Modalities; The Law of Noncontradiction and Possible Worlds; Craning Noncontradiction; Natural Necessity and Metaphysical Necessity in Millikan's Philosophy; The Son, the Daughter, and the Mighty Dead: Debunking the Myth of the Logical Given; Reply to Nussbaum; 10 Are Millikan's Concepts Inside-Out?; Introduction; Innerism and Outerism; Narrowing the divide; Are Some Concepts Inside-Out?; Millikan's Concepts; Reply to Prinz; 11 The Epistemology of Meaning; Introduction ; Section 1Section 2; Conclusion; Reply to Macdonalds; 12 Weasels and the A Priori; The Proliferation of Handles; Why the Two-Dimensionalist Needs Millikan's Positive Story; Nodding Along to the Positive Story; So What is There to Disagree About?; When is a Term a Natural Kind Term?; What Role Does the Deference to Naturalness Play in Natural Kind Terms and Concepts?; The Commonality between Narrowly Similar Agents; Some Arguments and Some Diagnoses; Two Projects; Reply to Braddon-Mitchell; 13 All in the Family; Locating the Fault Line: Rules and Roles, Norms and Causes ; Some Sellarsian Geophysics
• Sommario/riassunto: Millikan and Her Critics offers a unique critical discussion of Ruth Millikan's highly regarded, influential, and systematic contributions to philosophy of mind and language, philosophy of biology, epistemology, and metaphysics. These newly written contributions present discussion from some of the most important philosophers in the field today and include replies from Millikan herself. Comprises 13 new essays that critically examine the highly regarded and influential work of Ruth Millikan Covers a wide range of Millikan's most important work, from phi
• Titolo autorizzato: Millikan and her critics
• ISBN: 1-118-32811-6; 1-299-15817-X; 1-118-32810-8; 1-118-32808-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910840786303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Philosophers and their Critics