Volume II Readings in Philosophy of Psychology, Volume II

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Volume II Readings in Philosophy of Psychology, Volume II

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Readings in Philosophy of Psychology

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1981

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Volume 2 | The Language and Thought Series

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Block Ned :

Ned Block is Professor of Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Medicine Clinical Medicine Psychiatry, Psychotherapy

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction What Is Philosophy of Psychology? Ned Block Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part One. Mental Representation
Introduction: Mental Representations and Languages of Thought David Hills Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	11
1. Selections from Mental Acts Peter Geach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	21
2. Language Learning Gilbert Harman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	38
3. Propositional Attitudes Jerry A. Fodor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	45
4. A Cure for the Common Code? Daniel C. Dennett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	64
5. Mental Representation Hartry H. Field Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	78
Part Two. Imagery
Introduction: What Are Mental Images? Georges Key Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	117
6. The Nature of Images and the Introspective Trap Daniel C. Dennett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	128
7. Imagistic Representation Jerry A. Fodor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	135
8. Imagery, Propositions, and the Form of Internal Representations Stephen M. Kosslyn and James R. Pomerantz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	150
9. Imagery and Artificial Intelligence Zenon IY. Pylyshyn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	170
Part Three. The Subject Matter of Grammar
Introduction: Some Notes on What Linguistics Is About Jerry A. Fodor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	197
10. Grammar, Psychology, and Indeterminacy Stephen P. Stich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	208
11. What the Linguist Is Talking About Noam Chomsky and Jerrold J. Katz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	223
12. The Psychological Unreality of Semantic Representations Janet D. Fodor,, Jerry A. Fodor and Merrill F. Garrett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	238
13. The Real Status of Semantic Representations Jerrold J. Katz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	253
Part Four. Innate Ideas
Introduction: What Is Innateness? Ned Block Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	279
14. Innate Ideas Jerrold J. Katz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	282
15. The “Innateness Hypothesis” and Explanatory Models in Linguistics Hilary Putnam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	292
16. Reply to Putnam Noam Chomsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	300
17. On Cognitive Capacity Noam Chomsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	305
18. The Specificity of Language Skills Jerry A. Fodor, Thomas G. Bever and Merrill F. Garrett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	324
19. What Is Innate and Why Hilary Putnam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	339
20. Discussion of Putnam's Comments Noam Chomsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	349
21. Comment on Chomsky’s Reply Hilary Putnam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	359
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	361

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October 1, 2013

eBook ISBN:

9780674594722

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February 5, 1981

Hardcover ISBN:

9780674594715

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Reprint 2014

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6

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366

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674594722

eBook ISBN: 9780674594722

Hardcover ISBN: 9780674594715

Keywords for this book

Psychology -- Philosophy.; Language.; Behaviorism.; Innate ideas.; Mental representation.

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