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Language : a biological model /

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Ruth Milikan is well known for having developed a strikingly original way for philosophers to seek understanding of mind and language, which she sees as biological phenomena. In this text she draws together a series of groundbreaking essays which set out her approach to language.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Millikan, Ruth Garrett
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Language and languages > Philosophy.
Langage et langues > Philosophie.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Language and languages > Philosophy
Taal.
Biologische aspecten.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Language conventions made simple
  • 2. In defense of public language
  • 3. On meaning, meaning, and meaning
  • 4. The son and the daughter : on Sellars, Brandom, and Millikan
  • 5. The language-thought partnership : a bird's eye view
  • 6. Why (most) kinds are not classes
  • 7. Cutting philosophy of language down to size
  • 8. Proper function and convention in speech acts
  • 9. Pushmi-pullyu representations
  • 10. Semantics/pragmatics : (Purposes and cross-purposes).