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Representation, meaning, and thought

Title: Representation, meaning, and thought / Grant Gillett.
Author: Gillett, Grant, 1950-
Publication: Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press, 1992.

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Description

viii, 213 pages; 23 cm

Summary

This study examines the relationship between thought and language by considering the views of Kant and the later Wittgenstein alongside many strands of contemporary debate in the area of mental content, represented by the work of Evans, Peacocke, and McGinn. Building on an analysis of the nature of concepts and conceptions of objects, Grant Gillett generates an interesting account of psychological explanation and of the subject of experience. He offers a novel perspective on mental representation and linguistic meaning, accommodating the vexed topics of cognitive roles and singular thought. He concludes by outlining certain considerations relevant to sceptical arguments and the nature of perception. The synthesis that results from this project shows some significant correlations with contemporary work in cognitive and developmental psychology and is directly relevant to work in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophical psychology.

Subject

Note

Author is a New Zealander.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-209) and index.

Contents

1. Concepts and Generality -- 2. The Subject of Experience -- 3. Mental Explanation and the Content of Thought -- 4. Cognitive Development and Cognitive Systems -- 5. Representations -- 6. Linguistic Meaning -- 7. Cognitive Significance -- 8. Singular Thought -- 9. Mind-Dependence and Reality.

ISBN

0198239939
9780198239932

LCCN

92015170

OCLC

ocm25747982
25747982
SCSB-1969218

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library