Conceptual Flux Mental Representation, Misrepresentation, and Concept Change
How can one think about a thing, think something false about it, and still be thinking about that thing at all? If a concept is applied to something outside its meaning, how are we to say it does not mean that thing as well? The problem of misrepresentation is one of the central issues in contempora...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2000, 2000
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2000 |
| Series: | Studies in Cognitive Systems
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Groundwork and Overview of the Project
- 2. Verifications and Failure to Allow for Error and Misrepresentation
- 3. Cognitive Science and the Failure to Allow for Error and Misrepresentation
- 4. Content without Misrepresentation: A Pragmatic Theory
- 5: Objections and Replies
- 6: Analyticity, Compositionality, and Meaning Holism
- 7: Varieties of Meaning Holism
- 8: Implications of Strict Conceptual Role Theory
- 9: Methodological Objections, Nihilism, and (Re)Appraisal
- References
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
- About the Author