The measure of mind: propositional attitudes and their attribution / (Record no. 167255)
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| International Standard Book Number | 9780199211258 (alk. paper) |
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| Classification number | 128.2 |
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| Title | The measure of mind: propositional attitudes and their attribution / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Robert J. Matthews. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Oxford ; |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Oxford University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2007. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | x, 267 p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 1. A Prospective Introduction<br/>1.1. The Ascendancy of the Received View<br/>1.2. Troubles with the Received View<br/>1.3. The Persistence of the Received View: The Reiationalist<br/>Conception<br/>1.4. A Measurement-Theoretic Account of the Attitudes<br/>1.5. The Empirical Structure of the Attitudes: The Attitudes as<br/>Intentional Aptitudes<br/>1.6. Some Questions about the Proposed Account<br/>1.7. A Final Advertisement<br/>I. THE RECEIVED VIEW AND ITS TROUBLES<br/>2. The Received View<br/>2.1. The Basic Tenets<br/>2.2. Three Entailments<br/>2.3. Historical Origins and Development<br/>2.4. Recap<br/>3. Troubles with the Received View<br/>3.1. The Empirical Status of the Received View<br/>3.2. Thinkers as Representation-Using Systems<br/>3.3. Explicit Representation<br/>3.4. Why Behavioral Evidence Doesn't Suffice<br/>3.5. The Argument from Linguistic Knowledge<br/>3.5.1. Psycho linguistics: A Test Case for Claims of Empirical<br/>Support 55<br/>3.5.2. Speakers as Representation-Using Systems 56<br/>3.5.3. Bresnan and Kaplan's Strong Competence Hypothesis 57<br/>3.5.4. The Right View According to Fodor 60<br/>3.5.5. The Computational Realization of Grammars 63<br/>3.6. The Argument from Central Processing: Theories of<br/>Human Reasoning<br/>3.6.1. Knowledge of Language: Explaining Away the Potential<br/>Counterexamples 69<br/>3.6.2. Central Processes 70<br/>3.6.3. Theories of Deductive Reasoning 71<br/>3.6.4. Mental Logic Theories of Deductive Reasoning 74<br/>3.6.5. Do Mental Logic Theories Provide Any Suppon for the<br/>Received View? 78<br/>3.6.6. A Concluding Remark 84<br/>3.7. Explaining Away Apparent Counterexamples: Fodor s Way<br/>3.8. The Abductive Argument for the Received View: The<br/>Striking Parallelism<br/>3.9. The Persistence of the Received View<br/>3.10. A Weaker, Non-Reductive Construal of Propositional<br/>Attitudes<br/>4. Are Propositional Attitudes Relations?<br/>4.1. The Received View's Relational Conception of the Attitudes<br/>4.2. The Relational Logical Form of Belief Sentences<br/>4.3. Problems with the Relational Conception of Belief<br/>4.4. Semantic vs. Psychological 'Objects' of Belief<br/>4.5. Reading Back Logical Form: The Problem for Relationalists<br/>4.6. The Psychological Import of Logical Form: A<br/>Measurement-Theoretic Way of Thinking about the Issue<br/>II. A MEASUREMENT-THEORETIC ACCOUNT OF<br/>PROPOSITIONAL ATTITUDES AND THEIR<br/>ATTRIBUTION<br/>5. Foundations of a Measurement-Theoretic Account of the<br/>Attitudes<br/>5.1. The Basic Idea<br/>5.2. The Historical Development of Measurement Theory<br/>5.3. Homomorphisms and Other Structural Relations<br/>5.4. Representation, Abstraction, Idealization, and<br/>Representational Anifacts<br/>5.5. A Second-Order Intensional Version of Measurement<br/>Theor}'<br/>5.6. Measurement Theory and Measure Predicates<br/>5.7. The Knowledge Afforded by Measurement Theory<br/>6. The Basic Measurement-Theoretic Account<br/>6.1. Why Propositional Attitude Predicates Might Be Measure<br/>Predicates<br/>6.2. Measuring Propositional Attitudes<br/>6.3. Goals and Strateg)'<br/>6.4. The Structure of Natural Language Representations of<br/>Propositional Attitudes<br/>6.4.1. The Representational Domain 161<br/>6.4.2. Properties and Relations of Representatives of Propositional<br/>Attitudes 169<br/>6.4.3. Recap 172<br/>6.5. The Empirical Structure of the Attitudes: What Are Natural<br/>Language Representations of the Attitudes Images of?<br/>6.5.1. Inferring the Empirical Structure of the Attitudes 173<br/>6.5.2. Propositional Attitude Attributions and their Use 175<br/>6.5.3. Propositional Attitudes, their Behavioral Manifestations,<br/>andlUFs 176<br/>6.5.4. The Empirical Structure of the Attitudes 184<br/>6.5.5. Recap 195<br/>6.6. Informal Sketch of a Representation Theorem<br/>6.7. The Uniqueness Problem: When Have We Attributed the<br/>Same Propositional Attitude?<br/>6.8. Recap<br/>7. Elaboration and Explication of the Proposed<br/>Measurement-Theoretic Account<br/>7.1. The Explanatory Adequacy of the Account<br/>7.1.1. Wliat Having a Propositional Attitude Amounts to 215<br/>7.1.2. The 'Essential' Properties of Propositional Attitudes 216<br/>7.1.3. Why We Have the Particular Predication Scheme that<br/>We Do 223<br/>7.1.4. Role of Attitude Attributions in Common-sense Causal<br/>Explanations 227<br/>7.1.5. Puzzles about Propositional Attitude Attributions 230<br/>7.1.6. Iterated Propositional Attitude Attributions 235<br/>7.2. The Intrinsic Nature of the Attitudes<br/>7.3. Propositional Attitudes in Empirical Computational<br/>Cognitive Science: A Minimalist Account of the<br/>Computational Entailments of Propositional Attitude<br/>Attributions<br/>7.4. Further Implications of the Proposed Account<br/>7.4.1. Intentional Realism and the Naturalization Project 249<br/>7.4.2. Intentional Content Essentialism 251<br/>7.4.3. Prepositional Attitude-Based Semantics Programmes 253<br/>7.4.4. Schiffer's and Fodor's Translational Semantics<br/>Programme 253<br/>7.5. Summary Remarks |
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