A Theory of Content and Other Essays
A Theory of Content and Other Essays
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内容理论和其他论文
DOI：
10.1111/j.1468-0149.1992.tb00681.x
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1992
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Rita Nolan
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Rita Nolan
该合集由十一章组成，记录了自1984年以来福多尔的表象心理理论和他的心理建筑模块性论文的发展，并附有简短的介绍，为该合集提供了理论组织和连贯性。其中9篇论文已发表。本书的核心部分是首次在这里发表的一篇论文，“内容理论”，分两章给出，占本书的三分之一。这些论文涵盖了最近关于心理表征的广泛问题和立场，从福多在《思想的语言》（1975）中引入的观点进行评估，并在随后的几卷中得到发展，心理语义学（Psychosemantics，1987）这种观点是一种关于意义和心灵的自然主义-物理主义-原子主义-个人主义理论，它结合了对意图和命题态度的现实主义处理，旨在通过他的表征心灵理论调和信仰/欲望心理学与大胆的物理主义。这些文章主要是为了在批评者面前为这一观点辩护，推荐它而不是其他方法，并以合理的方式阐述它，或者以其他方式逃避批评。特别是，这些文章设计了一些方法，使原子主义者对意义和知觉的解释可以避开整体主义者（例如伯奇和普特南）对这种解释的批评。
This collection comprises eleven chapters chronicling the development, since 1984, of Fodor’s Representational Theory of Mind and his Modularity Thesis of Mental Architecture, with a brief introduction that provides theoretical organisation and coherence to the collection. Nine of the essays have been previously published. The centrepiece of the volume is an essay published for the first time here,‘A Theory ofcontent’, given in two chapters that make up one-third of the book.The essays range over a wide spectrum of recent issues and positions advanced about mental representation, evaluated from the perspective that Fodor introduced in The Language of Thought (1975) and has developed in several subsequent volumes, most recently Psychosemantics (1987). That perspective is a Naturalist-Physicalist-Atomist-Individualist theory of meaning and mind that incorporates a Realist treatment of intentions and propositional attitudes, aiming to reconcile a belief/desire psychology with a bold Physicalism via his Representational Theory of Mind. The essays are largely concerned to defend that view against critics, to recommend it over alternative approaches, and to elaborate it in ways that answer plausibly or otherwise escape its critics. In particular, the essays devise ways by which an Atomist account of meaning and perception might parry the criticisms levelled by Holists (such as Burge and Putnam, for instance) against such accounts.