|  | Ryder, Dan / Kingsbury, Justine / Williford, Kenneth (eds.)
Millikan and Her Critics
Philosophers and their Critics
 1. Edition December 2012
32.90 Euro
2012. 320 Pages, Softcover
ISBN 978-0-470-65685-3 - John Wiley & Sons
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Millikan and Her Critics offers a unique critical discussion of Ruth Millikan's highly regarded, influential, and systematic contributions to philosophy of mind and language, philosophy of biology, epistemology, and metaphysics. These newly written contributions present discussion from some of the most important philosophers in the field today and include replies from Millikan herself.
From the contents
Notes on Contributors vii
Foreword ix
Daniel C. Dennett
A Millikan Bibliography xiii
Introduction 1
Dan Ryder, Justine Kingsbury, and Kenneth Williford
1 Toward an Informational Teleosemantics 21
Karen Neander
Reply to Neander, by Ruth Millikan
2 Signals, Icons, and Beliefs 41
Peter Godfrey-Smith
Reply to Godfrey-Smith, by Ruth Millikan
3 Millikan ' s Isomorphism Requirement 63
Nicholas Shea
Reply to Shea, by Ruth Millikan
4 Millikan on Honeybee Navigation and Communication 87
Michael Rescorla
Reply to Rescorla, by Ruth Millikan
5 Concepts: Useful for Thinking 107
Louise Antony
Reply to Antony, by Ruth Millikan
6 Properties Over Substance 123
Richard Fumerton
Reply to Fumerton, by Ruth Millikan
7 Millikan ' s Historical Kinds 135
Mohan Matthen
Reply to Matthen, by Ruth Millikan
8 Millikan, Realism, and Sameness 155
Crawford L. Elder
Reply to Elder, by Ruth Millikan
9 Craning the Ultimate Skyhook: Millikan on the Law of Noncontradiction 176
Charles Nussbaum
Reply to Nussbaum, by Ruth Millikan
10 Are Millikan ' s Concepts Inside-Out? 198
Jesse Prinz
Reply to Prinz, by Ruth Millikan
11 The Epistemology of Meaning 221
Cynthia Macdonald and Graham Macdonald
Reply to Macdonalds, by Ruth Millikan
12 Weasels and the A Priori 241
David Braddon-Mitchell
Reply to Braddon-Mitchell, by Ruth Millikan
13 All in the Family 259
Willem A. deVries
Reply to deVries, by Ruth Millikan
Afterword 281
Ruth Millikan
References 282
Index 292
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