Psychosemantics The Problem of Meaning in the

Psychosemantics explores the relation between commonsense psychological theories and problems that are central to semantics and the philosophy of language. Building on and extending Fodor's earlier work it puts folk psychology on firm theoretical ground and rebuts externalist, holist, and naturalist threats to its position This book is included in the series Explorations in Cognitive Science, edited by Margaret A. Boden. A Bradford Book.

Jerry A. Fodor is State of New Jersey Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He is the author of The Mind Doesn't Work That Way: The Scope and Limits of Computational Psychology (MIT Press) and other books.

Preface
Introduction: The Persistence of the Attitudes
Individualism and Supervenience
Meaning Holism
Meaning and the World Order
Epilogue Creation Myth
Appendix Why There Still Has to be a Language of Thought
Notes
References
Author Index
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Psychosemantics The Problem of Meaning in the Philosophy of Mind

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