On Clear and Confused Ideas by Ruth Garrett Millikan
Written by one of today's most creative and innovative philosophers, Ruth Garrett Millikan, this book examines basic empirical concepts; how they are acquired, how they function, and how they have been misrepresented in the traditional philosophical literature. Millikan places cognitive psychology in an evolutionary context where human cognition is assumed to be an outgrowth of primitive forms of mentality, and assumed to have 'functions' in the biological sense. Of particular interest are her discussions of the nature of abilities as different from dispositions, her detailed analysis of the psychological act of reidentifying substances, and her critique of the language of thought for mental representation. In a radical departure from current philosophical and psychological theories of concepts, this book provides the first in-depth discussion on the psychological act of reidentification.
"The book has the rare merit of combining rigorous physical analysis with refreshingly original ideas" Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
Ruth Garrett Millikan, Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of Connecticut Ruth Garrett Millikan is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Connecticut. She was raised in the college town of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, and educated at Oberlin College and Yale University. She is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Winner of the 2017 Rescher
Prize for Systematic Philosophy. She is also the winner of the 2017 Rolf Shock Prize in Logic and Philosophy. Her other books are Language, Thought and Other Biological Categories (1984), White Queen Psychology and Other Essays for Alice (1993), On Clear and Confused Ideas (2000), Varieties of
Meaning (2004), and Language: A Biological Model (2005).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521625531 |
| ISBN 10 | 052162553X |
| Title | On Clear and Confused Ideas |
| Author | Ruth Garrett Millikan |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Philosophy |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2000-07-31 |
| Number of pages | 276 |
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