Millikan and Her Critics / Edition 1

by Dan Ryder, Justine Kingsbury, Kenneth Williford

Overview

Millikan and Her Critics offers a unique critical discussion of Ruth Millikan's highly regarded, influential, and systematic contributions to philosophy of mind and language, philosophy of biology, epistemology, and metaphysics.  These newly written contributions present discussion from some of the most important philosophers in the field today and include replies from Millikan herself.

• Comprises 13 new essays that critically examine the highly regarded and influential work of Ruth Millikan
• Covers a wide range of Millikan's most important work, from philosophy of mind and language to philosophy of biology
• Features contributions by some of the most important and influential philosophers working today
• Includes original replies to critics by Millikan

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780470656853
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	12/03/2012
Series:	Philosophers and their Critics , #14
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Dan Ryder is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, and publishes primarily in philosophy of mind and theoretical neuroscience.

Justine Kingsbury is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand. She works in philosophy of mind, philosophy of biology, aesthetics, and informal logic.

Kenneth Williford is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at The University of Texas at Arlington. He works in philosophy of mind, modern philosophy, and phenomenology.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors vii

Foreword Daniel C. Dennett ix

A Millikan Bibliography xiii

Introduction Dan Ryder Justine Kingsbury Kenneth Williford 1

1 Toward an Informational Teleosemantics Karen Neander 21

Reply to Neander Ruth Millikan

2 Signals, Icons, and Beliefs Peter Godfrey-Smith 41

Reply to Godfrey-Smith Ruth Millikan

3 Millikan's Isomorphism Requirement Nicholas Shea 63

Reply to Shea Ruth Millikan

4 Millikan on Honeybee Navigation and Communication Michael Rescorla 87

Reply to Rescorla Ruth Millikan

5 Concepts: Useful for Thinking Louise Antony 107

Reply to Antony Ruth Millikan

6 Properties Over Substance Richard Fumerton 123

Reply to Fumerton Ruth Millikan

7 Millikan's Historical Kinds Mohan Matthen 135

Reply to Matthen Ruth Millikan

8 Millikan, Realism, and Sameness Crawford L. Elder 155

Reply to Elder Ruth Millikan

9 Craning the Ultimate Skyhook: Millikan on the Law of Noncontradiction Charles Nussbaum 176

Reply to Nussbaum Ruth Millikan

10 Are Millikan's Concepts Inside-Out? Jesse Prinz 198

Reply to Prinz Ruth Millikan

11 The Epistemology of Meaning Cynthia Macdonald Graham Macdonald 221

Reply to Macdonalds Ruth Millikan

12 Weasels and the A Priori David Braddon-Mitchell 241

Reply to Braddon-Mitchell Ruth Millikan

13 All in the Family Willem A. deVries 259

Reply to deVries Ruth Millikan

Afterword Ruth Millikan 281

References 282

Index 292

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

A fascinating conversation between thirteen shrewd critics and one of our leading contemporary thinkers on the biological basis of language and thought.  Everyone—specialist and beginner alike—will learn something from this exchange. I certainly did.

-Fred Dretske, Duke University

Could humans be both thinking beings and evolved biochemical robots? Ruth Millikan has made the most sustained, systematic effort to show that we are both. Introspection can be integrated with science. This collection is the most sustained, systematic reflection on, and response to, her worldview.

-Kim Sterelny, Victoria University of Wellington