Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction ix
4. A defense of content-internalism and a descriptivist theory of concepts
5. Basic concepts 3
6. The predicative nature of sense-perception 25
7. Uniquely individuating descriptions 41
8. Some semantic consequences or our analysis 69
9. Modality, intensionality, and a posteriori necessity 97
10. Cognitive maps and causal connections 109
11. Concepts as knowledge of series of interlocking existence-claims 123
12. The problem of de re senses 129
13. Publicity problems and the nature of linguistic communication 153
14. Content-externalism and self-knowledge 163
15. Why one’s mental content is fixed by one’s epistemic situation 181
16. Jackson and Pettit on program-causality and content-externalism 189
17. Fodor, Conceptual Atomism, and Computationalism
18. Content-externalism and atomism 217
19. The concept of a symbol 261
20. Event-causation and the root-problem with CTM 285
21. Fodor’s first argument for conceptual atomism 293
22. Fodor’s second argument for conceptual atomism 315
23. Fodor’s third argument for conceptual atomism 327
24. Some arguments for the Symbolic Conception of Thought 397
25. A positive argument against SCT 409
26. Another argument against LOT 419
27. Propositional structure and the ineliminability of non-conceptual content 429
28. Conceptual content and the structure of the proposition 443
29. Peacocke on concept-possession 467
30. Semantics versus psychology 483
31. Conclusion 507
32. Bibliography 509
33. Index 517