Beyond concepts : unicepts, language, and natural information /

Ruth Garrett Millikan presents a strikingly original account of how we get to grips with the world in thought. Her question is Kant's 'How is knowledge possible?', answered from a contemporary naturalist standpoint. We begin with an understanding of what the world is like prior to cog...

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Unicepts, language, and natural information
Unicepts --
Introduction to Part I --
Overview --
Selection Processes --
Ontology and Language --
Unicepts and Unitrackers --
Organization and Method --
Acknowledgments --
Clumpy World --
Real Kinds --
Reproduction and Mass Production --
Historical Kinds --
Individuals --
Eternal Kinds --
Shapes and Divisions of Historical Kind Clumps --
Real Categories --
Direct Reference for Extensional Terms --
Conventions of Language --
Following Precedent --
Direct Reference to Clumps --
Identifying through Language --
Real Definitions --
Names for Properties --
Boundaries and Slippage --
Communication with Names for Clumps and Peaks --
Introducing Unitrackers and Unicepts --
Initial Examples of Unitracker Function --
Discarding Concepts --
Details on the Nature and Function of Unicepts --
Life Span and Growth of Unitrackers and Unicepts --
How Names Connect with Unicepts --
Role of Language in Unicept Development --
On Modeling Unicepts --
Functions of Same-Tracking --
Perceptual Constancy Mechanisms --
Self-Relative Location Trackers --
Object Constancy --
Same-Tracking for Application of Unicept Templates --
Practical Stuffs and Affording Unicepts --
Factic Unicepts: Substantive and Attributive --
Two Closing Remarks --
How Unicepts Get Their Referents --
How Unicept Referents Are Fixed: The Quarry --
Two General Principles Concerning Functions --
Imprinting --
More General Mechanisms for Priming Unitrackers --
Some Mechanisms that Set Targets, Specifically, for Affording Unicepts --
Problem of Location-Detached Signs --
Third General Principle: Proxy Functions --
Natural Epistemology for Substantive and Attributive Unicepts --
Misrepresentation, Redundancy, Equivocity, Emptiness (and Swampman) --
Failures of Biological Function --
False Beliefs --
Redundant Unitrackers and Fregean Senses --
Equivocepts --
Vacucepts --
How Unicepts Fit with Biosemantics --
Swampman --
Philosophical Analysis; Referents of Names: Theory Change; Observation versus Theory; Theory of Mind --
Philosophical Analysis --
Referents of Names --
Theory Change in Science --
Observation versus Theory --
"Theory of Mind" --
Infosigns, Intentional Signs, and their Interpretation --
Introduction to Part II --
Infosigns and Natural Information --
Infosigns and Intentional Signs --
Interpreting Linguistic Signs --
Indexicals and Selfsigns --
Assumptions to be Questioned --
Components of Conventional Linguistic Signs --
Preliminary Examples of Selfsigning Components --
Indexicals and Demonstratives --
Addendum on Intensional Contexts --
Anatomy of Signs --
Project --
Infosigns Are Always Articulate and Often Productive --
Equivocal Infosigns --
Infosign Systems and Families --
Variants and Invariants; Embedded Infosign Families --
Taxonomy of Infosign Variables --
How a Language Is Put Together --
Examples of Nonintentional Infosigns --
Causal Connections; Dretske on Natural Information --
Correlational Information --
Reference Class Problem --
Addressing the Reference Class Problem --
Using Infosigns --
Correlations between Types of States of Affairs --
Infosign Strength and Response Strength --
Redundancy --
Metacorrelations --
Indirect Infosigns; Indirect Natural Information --
Intentional Signs --
Intentional Infosigns --
Intentional Signs and Stabilizing Functions --
Pure and Impure Intentional Signs --
Entwining of Intentional Content and Nonintentional Information --
Intentional Signs Used by Non-Human Animals --
Maps, Charts, Diagrams, Graphs --
Extending the Senses --
Inner Representations --
Linguistic Signs --
Topic --
Semantic Meaning --
Communicating with Language: The Broad Picture --
Meta-Regularities and Extra-Semantic Infocontent --
Grice's Conversational Maxims --
Far-Side Pragmatic Meaning, or Semantic Meaning? --
Addendum: Gricean Temptations --
Perception, Especially Perception through Language --
Perception as Sign Reading --
Attached and Detached Signs, with an aside on Animal Cognition --
Genuine Perception Thought of as Certain --
Contents of Perceptual Experience --
Translating Linguistic Signs into Understanding --
Replies to Objections --
Markers of Identity and Grounded Infosigns --
Selfsigns of Identity: Duplicate Markers; Strawson Markers --
Anaphoric Signs of Identity --
Grounding as Indicating Identity --
Situated Signs; Counting up Signs --
Recognizing Identity: A Reminder --
Out-Side Pragmatics: Descriptions, Quantifiers, Directives --
Three Kinds of Referent --
Functions of the Definite and Indefinite Articles --
Quantifiers, Possessives, and Proper Names --
Thumbnail Review of Basic Themes.
1. Verfasser:
Millikan, Ruth Garrett
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Ausgabe:
First edition.
Zusammenfassung:
Ruth Garrett Millikan presents a strikingly original account of how we get to grips with the world in thought. Her question is Kant's 'How is knowledge possible?', answered from a contemporary naturalist standpoint. We begin with an understanding of what the world is like prior to cognition, then develop a theory of cognition within that world.
Umfang:
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Anmerkungen:
Previously issued in print: 2017.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-178594-6
Schlagworte:
Knowledge, Theory of.
Ontology.
Cognition.
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