The Elm and the Expert : Mentalese and Its Semantics
Overview
The Elm and the Expert provides a lively discussion of semantic issues about mental representation, with special attention to issues raised by Frege's problem, twin cases, and the putative indeterminacy of reference. The book extends and revises a view of the relation between mind and meaning that the author has been developing since his 1975 book, The Language of Thought. Among philosophers, a general consensus exists that a referential semantics for mental representation cannot support a robust account of intentional explanation. This book is largely a reconsideration of the arguments that are supposed to ground this consensus. Fodor offers a theory sketch in which psychological explanation is intentional, psychological processes are computational, and the semantic properties of mental representations are referential.
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- ISBN-13: 9780262560931
- ISBN-10: 0262560933
- Publisher: MIT Press
- Publish Date: August 1995
- Dimensions: 7.95 x 5.27 x 0.43 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.42 pounds
- Page Count: 144
- Reading Level: Ages 18-UP
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