{"product_id":"beyond-concepts-unicepts-language-and-natural-information-paperback","title":"Beyond Concepts: Unicepts, Language, and Natural Information - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRuth Garrett Millikan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuth Garrett Millikan presents a highly original account of cognition - of how we get to grips with the world in thought. The question at the heart of her book is Kant's 'How is knowledge possible?', but answered from a contemporary naturalist standpoint. The starting assumption is that we are evolved creatures that use cognition as a guide in dealing with the natural world, and that the natural world is roughly as natural science has tried to describe it. Very unlike Kant, then, we must begin with ontology, with a rough understanding of what the world is like prior to cognition, only later developing theories about the nature of cognition within that world and how it manages to reflect the rest of nature. And in trying to get from ontology to cognition we must traverse another non-Kantian domain: questions about the transmission of information both through natural signs and through purposeful signs including, especially, language. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMillikan makes a number of innovations. Central to the book is her introduction of the ideas of unitrackers and unicepts, whose job is to recognize the same again as manifested through the jargon of experience. She offers a direct reference theory for common nouns and other extensional terms; a naturalist sketch of conceptual development; a theory of natural information and of language function that shows how properly functioning language carries natural information; a novel description of the semantics\/pragmatics distinction; a discussion of perception as translation from natural informational signs; new descriptions of indexicals, demonstratives and intensional contexts; and a new analysis of the reference of incomplete descriptions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRuth Garrett Millikan, \u003cem\u003eDistinguished Professor Emerita, University of Connecticut\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRuth Garrett Millikan is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Connecticut. She was raised in the college town of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, and educated at Oberlin College and Yale University. She is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Winner of the 2017 Rescher Prize for Systematic Philosophy. She is also the winner of the 2017 Rolf Shock Prize in Logic and Philosophy. Her other books are \u003cem\u003eLanguage, Thought and Other Biological Categories\u003c\/em\u003e (1984), \u003cem\u003eWhite Queen Psychology and Other Essays for Alice\u003c\/em\u003e (1993), \u003cem\u003eOn Clear and Confused Ideas\u003c\/em\u003e (2000), \u003cem\u003eVarieties of Meaning\u003c\/em\u003e (2004), and \u003cem\u003eLanguage: A Biological Model\u003c\/em\u003e (2005). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 24, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45256898871398,"sku":"9780198717201","price":71.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/Q2NqOGJwU0MrakhpeTFGallJZFFJdz09.webp?v=1773755424","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/beyond-concepts-unicepts-language-and-natural-information-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}