Stephen P. Stich

Collected Papers, Volume 1

Mind and Language, 1972-2010

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume collects the best and most influential essays that Stephen Stich has published in the last 40 years on topics in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language. They discuss a wide range of topics including grammar, innateness, reference, folk psychology, eliminativism, connectionism, evolutionary psychology, simulation theory, social construction, and psychopathology. However, they are unified by two central concerns. The first is the viabilityof the commonsense conception of the mind in the face of challenges posed by both philosophical arguments and empirical findings. The second is the philosophical implications of research in the cognitive sciences which, in the last half century, has transformed both our understanding of the mindand the ways in which the mind is studied. The volume includes a new introductory essay that elaborates on these themes and offers an overview of the papers that follow.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 684g
• ISBN-13: 9780199734108
• ISBN-10: 0199734100
• Artikelnr.: 31970516

Autorenporträt

Stephen Stich is Board of Governors Professor, Philosophy Department, Rutgers University. He is the author of Deconstructing the Mind and Mindreading with Shaun Nichols.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* 1.: Grammar, Psychology, and Interdeterminancy
* 2.: The Idea of Innateness
* 3.: Beliefs and Subdoxastic States
* 4.: Autonomous Psychology and the Belief-Desire Thesis
* 5.: Dennett on International Systems
* 6.: Connectionism, Eliminativism and the Future of Folk Psychology
* William Ramsey, Stephen Stich, and Joseph Garon
* 7.: Connectionism and Three Levels of Nativism
* William Ramsey and Stephen Stich
* 8.: Narrow Content Meets Fat Syntax
* 9.: Folk Psychology: Simulation vs. Tacit Theory?
* Stephen Stich and Shaun Nichols
* 10.: Intentionality and Naturalism
* Stephen Stich and Stephen Laurence
* 11.: What Is Folk Psychology?
* Stephen Stich and Ian Ravenscroft
* 12.: The Flight to Reference, or How Not to Make Progress in the
Philosophy of
* Science
* Michael A. Bishop and Stephen Stich
* 13.: The Odd Couple: The Compatibility of Social Construction and
Evolutionary
* Psychology
* Ron Mallon and Stephen Stich
* 14.: Darwin in the Madhouse: Evolutionary Psychology and the
Classification of
* Mental Disorders
* Dominic Murphy and Stephen Stich
* 15.: : Folk Psychology
* Stephen Stich and Shaun Nichols
* 16.: Semantics, Cross-Cultural Style
* Edouard Machery, Ron Mallon, Shaun Nichols, and Stephen Stich
* 17.: Against Arguments from Reference
* Ron Mallon, Edouard Machery, Shaun Nichols, and Stephen Stich

Rezensionen

..The papers collected in these two volumes have been cited and reprinted many times. But the two introductory essays make clear that, for Stich, the academic aspect of philosophy is inseparable from the human aspect: the chance encounters, the successes and failures, the collaborators, critics, and students. The philosophical process comes across as a flawed but optimistic enterprise, but ultimately as an enterprise which is inescapably human. Zoe Drayson, Mind