| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 263 pages) |
| Series |
Approaches to semiotics ; 117 |
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Approaches to semiotics ; 117
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| Contents |
""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Semiotics and cognition""; ""1.1. Introduction""; ""1.2. Critique of pure semiotics""; ""1.3. Just how pure is pure semiotics?""; ""1.4. Morris and Peirce on mentalism""; ""1.5. Mentalism reconsidered""; ""1.6. John Deely on signs and ideas""; ""2. Cognition in the wake of the linguistic turn""; ""2.1. Introduction""; ""2.2. The linguistic turn""; ""2.3. Antimentalism and formalism within the analytic tradition""; ""2.4. Reasons for the cognitive shift""; ""2.5. Problems with cognitivism: the language of thought and the formalist stance"" |
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""2.6. The second phase of cognitivism""""2.7. Connectionism and the multiplicity of mind""; ""3. Beyond traditional mentalism""; ""3.1. Introduction""; ""3.2. General Principles of Cognitivism""; ""3.3. Cognitivism and objections to traditional mentalism""; ""3.4. The language of thought and computational theories of mind""; ""4. Prelude to a cognitive theory of symbols""; ""4.1. Introduction""; ""4.2. Truth conditions, conventions, and cultural units""; ""4.3. On symbols and indices""; ""4.4. Symbols reconsidered""; ""4.5. Conclusion""; ""5. Steps towards a theory of representations"" |
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""5.1. Introduction""""5.2. Criteria for evaluating cognitive theories""; ""5.3. Preliminaries for a theory of representations""; ""5.5. Dretske's model of elementary behavior""; ""6. Functional autonomy and the arbitrariness of symbols""; ""6.1. Introduction""; ""6.2. Perception and understanding""; ""6.3. Functional autonomy""; ""6.4. Functional autonomy and the relation of signification""; ""6.5. Functional autonomy and cross-modal transfers""; ""6.6. Functional autonomy and imagination""; ""6.7. Functional autonomy and the evolution of symbolic communication"" |
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""7. The development of symbolic communication in children""""7.1. Introduction""; ""7.2. Piaget�s sensorimotor period and the child's first words""; ""7.3. Intentions in young children""; ""7.4. The child's conceptual system""; ""7.5. Pure performatives and functional autonomy""; ""7.6. Cognition and social development""; ""7.7. Conclusion""; ""Afterword""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index of Names""; ""Subject Index"" |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-256) and indexes |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Cognition.
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Semiotics -- Psychological aspects.
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Signs and symbols -- Psychological aspects.
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| LC no. |
94023217 |
| ISBN |
3110903008 (electronic bk) |
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9783110903003 (electronic bk) |
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