Concepts are highly theoretical entities. One cannot study them empirically without
committing oneself to substantial preliminary assumptions. Among the competing theories of …

Ruth Garrett Millikan, White Queen Psychology and Other Essays for Alice Page 1 1 Ruth
Garrett Millikan, White Queen Psychology and Other Essays for Alice ch.13: The Myth of the …

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 …

C ausal or informational theories of the semantic content of mental states which have had
an eye on the problem of false representations have characteristically begun with some-thing …

A list of groceries, Professor Anscombe once suggested, might be used as a shopping list,
telling what to buy, or it might be used as an inventory list, telling what has been bought (…

Ruth Millikan is well known for having developed a strikingly original way for philosophers to
seek understanding of mind and language, which she sees as biological phenomena. She …

Many different things are said to have meaning: people mean to do various things; tools and
other artifacts are meant for various things; people mean various things by using words and …

The simplest way for one science to reduce to another is the way cooking laws reduce to
chemistry. The cook's law that if you mix baking soda with something sour it bubbles up is …

A strong contemporary current runs to the effect that the ability of an agent to project knowledge
of the world into relevant action in the world depends upon the ability to think indexical …

6 It is doubtful, for example, whether saying'Damn!'when annoyed and'Ouch!'when it hurts
are coordination conventions. Expletives are frequently uttered by persons when alone, nor …