Author | Novak, Peter. author |
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Title | Mental Symbols [electronic resource] : A Defence of the Classical Theory of Mind / by Peter Novak |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1997 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5632-5 |
Descript | XXII, 267 p. online resource |
1 Conservative Rationalism I -- 1.1 Common-sense Psychology -- 1.2 The Supervenience Chain -- 1.3 The Nomic Theory of Reference -- 1.4 Casus Belli -- 1.5 Nomenclature -- 2 The Idea as World and Will A Belief in a Contribution of Environment to Meaning and a Division of Semantic Labour -- 2.1 The Ambiguous Meaning of โMeaning โ -- 2.2 The Will to Linguistic Power -- 3 Sentence-based Semantics Early Steps toward Semantic Holism -- 3.1 Motivation for Semantic Holism -- 3.2 Frege on Term-based Semantics -- 3.3 Russell on Term-based Semantics -- 3.4 CarnapโSemantic Verificationism -- 4 Radical Empiricism I -- 4.1 Meaning and Non-existent Entities -- 4.2 The Separation of Meaning and Reference -- 4.3 Mental and Mind-Independent Semantic Universals -- 5 Radical Empiricism II -- 5.1 Two Major Routes to Semantic Holism -- 5.2 The Route from Verificationism to Holism -- 5.3 The Route from Behaviourism to Holism -- 5.4 Remarks on Middlebrow Pragmatism -- 6 Conservative Rationalism II -- 6.1 The Old Sorcererโs Supervenience Chain -- 6.2 Misrepresentation and Asymmetric Dependence -- 6.3 The Sociological Phase of Reference -- 7 The Classical Theory of Mind I -- 7.1 Five Ways of Defining Logical Modality -- 7.2 The Classical Theory of Mind -- 7.3 The Classical Theory of Representation -- 7.4 Aspects of the Classical Theory of Knowledge -- 7.5 Modal Properties in the Model Code -- 7.6 The Complex Ideas of Implication -- 7.7 The Complex A Priori Idea of Valid Deductive Inference -- 7.8 Remarks on CTM and Analytic Philosophy -- 8 The Classical Theory of Mind II -- 8.1 The Ontology and Architecture of CTM -- 8.2 Learning, Memory, and Association in Aplysia -- 8.3 Learning, Memory, and Association in Vertebrates -- 8.4 The Genetic Code, the Mental Code -- 8.5 History, Histology, and the Molecular Level of Analysis -- 9 The Classical Theory of Mind III -- 9.1 Toward an Integrated Account of Mind -- 9.2 The Symbolic System of a Deep-layer, Long-term-store Psychic Cell -- 9.3 The Mind as a System of Psychic Cells -- 9.4 The Mind and its External Affairs -- 10 The Tale of Russellโs Paradox -- 10.1 The Misty Origins of Analytic Philosophy -- 10.2 Russellโs Sophism in the Classical Theory of Mind -- 10.3 The Well-Formedness of the Mind -- Epilogue