Collected Papers, Volume 1 : Mind and Language, 1972-2010.

This volume collects the best and most influential essays that Stephen Stich has published in the last 40 years on topics in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language. They discuss a wide range of topics including grammar, innateness, reference, folk psychology, eliminativism, connection...

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Main Author: Stich, Stephen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Grammar, Psychology, and Indeterminacy; 2. The Idea of Innateness; 3. Beliefs and Subdoxastic States; 4. Autonomous Psychology and the Belief-Desire Thesis; 5. Dennett on Intentional Systems; 6. Connectionism, Eliminativism, and the Future of Folk Psychology; 7. Connectionism and Three Levels of Nativism; 8. Narrow Content Meets Fat Syntax; 9. Folk Psychology: Simulation or Tacit Theory?; 10. Intentionality and Naturalism; 11. What Is Folk Psychology?; 12. The Flight to Reference, or How Not to Make Progress in the Philosophy of Science
  • 13. The Odd Couple: The Compatibility of Social Construction and Evolutionary Psychology14. Darwin in the Madhouse: Evolutionary Psychology and the Classification of Mental Disorders; 15. Folk Psychology; 16. Semantics, Cross-Cultural Style; 17. Against Arguments from Reference; Name Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; V; W