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Getting clear about equivocal concepts: critical review of Millikan's 'On clear and confused ideas'
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Just how far can externalism go? In this exciting new book Ruth Millikan explores a radically externalist treatment of empirical concepts. For the last thirty years philosophy of mind’s ties to meaning internalism have been loosened. The theory of content has swung uncomfortably on its moorings in a fickle current, straining against opposing ties to mind and world. In this book Millikan casts conceptual content adrift from the thinker: what determines the content of a concept is not cognit...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Philosophy Centre of the University of Lisbon
- Journal:
- Disputatio Journal website
- Volume:
- 13
- Pages:
- 34-47
- Publication date:
- 2002-11-01
- EISSN:
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0873-626X
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- Language:
- English
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- ora:7328
- Deposit date:
- 2013-09-19
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- Copyright holder:
- Shea, N
- Copyright date:
- 2002
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