Research Catalog

Title

New thoughts about old things : cognitive policies as the ground of singular concepts / Krista Lawlor.

Author

Lawlor, Krista.

Publication

New York : Garland Pub., 2001.

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Details

Description

xiv, 122 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in philosophy

Uniform Title

Studies in philosophy (New York, N.Y.)

Subject

• Thought and thinking
• Concepts
• Cognition > Philosophy
• thinking
• Apprehension
• Erkenntnis
• Sprache
• Cognition

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-119) and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Externalism and (Yet Another) Self-Knowledge Problem. Pt. I. A Dilemma for the Externalist. Pt. II. A Compatibilist Reply. Pt. III. Charting an Alternative Course. Pt. IV. A Sketch of the Account -- Ch. 2. Straight Solutions to the Skeptical Problem. Pt. I. Reflective Strategies. Pt. II. Campbell's View. Pt. III. Unlikely Consequences. Pt. IV. A Comparatibilist Rejoinder -- Ch. 3. How to Think about Thinking with Purported Coreference. Pt. I. Thinking as of the Same: Some Examples. Pt. II. How to Choose a Model. Pt. III. Millikan's Model of Coreferential Thinking. Pt. IV. Some Criteria: Failure of the "Node" Model. Pt. V. The File-Merge Model. Pt. VI. Millikan Against Modes: Additional Models -- Ch. 4. Dispositions and Dossiers: The Mechanics of Coreferential Thinking. Pt. I. Maintaining an Intentional Relation. Pt. II. Having Re-identificatory Aims. Pt. III. Dispositions and Dossiers. Pt. IV. Sensitivity to One's Files. Pt. V. Varieties of Coreference -- Ch. 5. Warrant in Coreferential Thinking. Pt. I. Warrant for Trading on Coreference. Pt. II. Coreferential Belief and Trading on Coreference. Pt. III. Re-identification as Policy-Based Cognition. Pt. IV. Policy and Bootstrapped Warrant.

ISBN

• 0815339631
• 9780815339632

LCCN

2002280545

OCLC

• ocm46604364
• 46604364
• SCSB-1207838

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library