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Minds without Meanings: An Essay on the Content of Concepts

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Description for Minds without Meanings: An Essay on the Content of Concepts Paperback. .
Two prominent thinkers argue for the possibility of a theory of concepts that takes reference to be concepts' sole semantic property. In cognitive science, conceptual content is frequently understood as the meaning of a mental representation. This position raises largely empirical questions about what concepts are, what form they take in mental processes, and how they connect to the world they are about. In Minds without Meaning, Jerry Fodor and Zenon Pylyshyn review some of the proposals put forward to answer these questions and find that none of them is remotely defensible. ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
261g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262529815
SKU
V9780262529815
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About Jerry A. Fodor
Jerry A. Fodor is State of New Jersey Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He is the author of The Mind Doesn't Work That Way: The Scope and Limits of Computational Psychology (MIT Press) and other books. Zenon W. Pylyshyn is Board of Governors Professor of Cognitive Science at Rutgers University. He is the author of Things and Places: How ... Read more

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