Meaning in Mind

1. Auflage 1992
ISBN: 978-0-631-18701-1
Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 694 g

Even in the eyes of many of his critics, Fodor is widely regarded as the most important philosopher of psychology of his generation. With Noam Chomsky at MIT in the 1960s he mounted a strenuous attack on the behaviourism that then dominated psychology and most philosophy of mind, and since then, he has articulated and defended in considerable richness and detail a computational theory of intentional causation that is central to the emerging cognitive sciences. This theory provides a framework both for the resolution of many traditional problems in the philosophy of mind and language, and for actual psychological research and experimentation. The present volume contains 16 contributions by philosophers and cognitive scientists who have been critical of this theory, followed by replies Fodor makes to each of them. There is alos a lengthy introduction that provides an overview of Fodor's views and their relation to this critical discussion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Loewer, Barry

Rey, Georges

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors ix

Editors’ Introduction xi

The Nomic and the Robust 1
LOUISE ANTONY AND JOSEPH LEVINE

Has Content Been Naturalized? 17
LYNNE RUDDER BAKER

What Narrow Content is Not 33
NED BLOCK

Naturalizing Content 65
PAUL A. BOGHOSSIAN

Granny’s Campaign for Safe Science 87
DANIEL C. DENNETT

Why Fodor Can’t Have It Both Ways 95
MICHAEL DEVITT

Can We Explain Intentionality? 119
BRIAN LOAR

Is There Vindication Through Representationalism? 137
ROBERT J. MATTHEWS

Speaking Up for Darwin 151
RUTH GARRETT MILLIKAN

Fodor and Psychological Explanations 165
JOHN PERRY AND DAVID ISRAEL

Have a Compositional Semantics? 181
STEPHEN SCHIFFER

Connectionism, Constituency, and the Language of Thought 201
PAUL SMOLENSKY

How to Do Semantics for the Language of Thought 229
ROBERT STALNAKER

Narrow Content Meets Fat Syntax 239
STEPHEN P. STICH

Replies 255
JERRY A. FODOR

Bibliography 321

Index 334

Über Autor(innen)

Barry Loewer is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University.

Georges Rey is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland.