Topics
Ambiguity
Discourse Analysis
Figurative Language/Metaphor
Grammatical Relations
Language
Language and Thought
Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis
Linguistics
Meaning
Reference, Theories of
Relational Grammar
Semantics
Sense and Reference
Sentence Processing
Syntax
Discourse Analysis
Figurative Language/Metaphor
Grammatical Relations
Language
Language and Thought
Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis
Linguistics
Meaning
Reference, Theories of
Relational Grammar
Semantics
Sense and Reference
Sentence Processing
Syntax
Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories
New Foundations for Realism
Overview
Beginning with a general theory of function applied to body organs, behaviors, customs, and both inner and outer representations, Ruth Millikan argues that the intentionality of language can be described without reference to speaker intentions and that an understanding of the intentionality of thought can and should be divorced from the problem of understanding consciousness. The results support a realist theory of truth and of universals, and open the way for a nonfoundationalist and nonholistic approach to epistemology.
A Bradford Book