Psychosemantics : the problem of meaning in the philosophy of mind /

Psychosemantics explores the relation between commonsense psychological theories and problems that are central to semantics and the philosophy of language. Building on and extending Fodor's earlier work it puts folk psychology on firm theoretical ground and rebuts externalist, holist, and natur...

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Main Authors: Fodor, Jerry A, Fodor, Jerry A. (Author)
Corporate Author: British Psychological Society
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1987
Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, c1987
Cambridge, Massachusetts : [1987]
Series:Explorations in cognitive science ; 2
Explorations in cognitive science ; 3
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the persistence of the attitudes
  • Individualism and supervenience
  • Meaning holism
  • Meaning and the world order
  • Creation myth
  • Why there still has to be a language of thought