On Clear and Confused Ideas
On Clear and Confused Ideas
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关于清晰和混乱的想法
DOI：
10.1017/cbo9780511613296
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发表时间：
2000
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0.7
通讯作者：
R. Millikan
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作者：
R. Millikan
《论清晰与混乱的思想》由当今最具创造力和创新性的哲学家之一露丝·加勒特·密立根（Ruth Garrett Millikan）撰写，探讨了我们最基本的经验概念：它们是如何获得的，它们是如何发挥作用的，以及它们在传统哲学和心理学文献中是如何被歪曲的。密立根假设人类认知是原始心理形式的产物，并且具有生物学意义上的“功能”。除了她关于经验概念的内在本质的新颖论文外，特别令人感兴趣的是她对能力本质不同于倾向的讨论，她对重新识别物质的心理行为的详细分析，她对语言和思想相互依赖的讨论，以及她对心理表征的思想语言的批判。密立根认为，认知的核心工作是通过不同的媒体和在不同的条件下重新识别个体、属性、种类等的极其困难的任务。认知系统必须关注其自身心理语义的完整性，这要求它正确地重新识别传入信息的来源。本书与当前的哲学和心理学概念理论截然不同，首次对重新识别的心理行为进行了深入讨论。广大哲学和心理学学生都会对此感兴趣。
Written by one of today’s most creative and innovative philosophers, Ruth Garrett Millikan, On Clear and Confused Ideas examines our most basic kind of empirical concepts: how they are acquired, how they function, and how they have been misrepresented in the traditional philosophical and psychological literature. Millikan assumes that human cognition is an outgrowth of primitive forms of mentality and that it has “functions” in the biological sense. In addition to her novel thesis on the internal nature of empirical concepts, of particular interest are her discussions of the nature of abilities as different from dispositions, her detailed analysis of the psychological act of reidentifying substances, her discussion of the interdependence of language and thought, and her critique of the language of thought for mental representation. Millikan argues that the central job of cognition is the exceedingly difficult task of reidentifying individuals, properties, kinds, and so forth, through diverse media and under diverse conditions.A cognitive system must attend to the integrity of its own mental semantics, which requires that it correctly reidentify sources of incoming information. In a radical departure from current philosophical and psychological theories of concepts, this book provides the first in-depth discussion on the psychological act of reidentification. It will be of interest to a broad range of students of philosophy and psychology.