Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories: New Foundations for Realism

Beginning with a general theory of function applied to body organs, behaviors, customs, and both inner and outer representations, Ruth Millikan argues that the intentionality of language can be described without reference to speaker intentions and that an understanding of the intentionality of thought can and should be divorced from the problem of understanding consciousness. The results support a realist theory of truth and of universals, and open the way for a nonfoundationalist and nonholistic approach to epistemology.

A Bradford Book

Author: Ruth Garrett Millikan
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 12/16/1987
Series: Mit Press
Pages: 367
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.83w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780262631150
Revised Edition