Varieties of meaning : the 2002 Jean Nicod lectures
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| Format: | eBook Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass
MIT Press
2004
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| Edition: | 1 |
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| ISBN: | 9780262134446, 0262134446 |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- I Purposes and Cross-purposes -- 1 Purposes and Cross-purposes of Humans -- 2 Purposes and Cross-purposes of Memes -- II Natural Signs and Intentional Signs -- 3 Local Natural Signs and Information -- 4 Productivity and Embedding in Natural Signs -- 5 Teleosemantic Theories -- 6 Intentionality -- 7 Intensionality -- III Outer Intentional Signs -- 8 Linguistic Signs Emerge from Natural Signs -- 9 Direct Perception through Language -- 10 Tracking the Domains of Conventional Signs -- 11 Varieties of the Semantics-Pragmatics Distinction -- 12 Demonstratives, Indexicals, and a Bit More about Descriptions -- IV Inner Intentional Signs -- 13 Inner Pushmi-pullyus -- 14 Detaching Representations of Objects -- 15 Space and Time -- 16 Detaching Goal State Representations -- 17 Generating Goal State Representations -- 18 Limitations on Nonhuman Thought -- 19 Conjectures on Human Thought -- References -- Index