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Minds without Meanings - An Essay on the Content of Concepts (Paperback)
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Minds without Meanings - An Essay on the Content of Concepts (Paperback)
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Two prominent thinkers argue for the possibility of a theory of
concepts that takes reference to be concepts' sole semantic
property. In cognitive science, conceptual content is frequently
understood as the "meaning" of a mental representation. This
position raises largely empirical questions about what concepts
are, what form they take in mental processes, and how they connect
to the world they are about. In Minds without Meaning, Jerry Fodor
and Zenon Pylyshyn review some of the proposals put forward to
answer these questions and find that none of them is remotely
defensible. Fodor and Pylyshyn determine that all of these
proposals share a commitment to a two-factor theory of conceptual
content, which holds that the content of a concept consists of its
sense together with its reference. Fodor and Pylyshyn argue instead
that there is no conclusive case against the possibility of a
theory of concepts that takes reference as their sole semantic
property. Such a theory, if correct, would provide for the
naturalistic account of content that cognitive science lacks-and
badly needs. Fodor and Pylyshyn offer a sketch of how this theory
might be developed into an account of perceptual reference that is
broadly compatible with empirical findings and with the view that
the mental processes effecting perceptual reference are largely
preconceptual, modular, and encapsulated.
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