What Minds Can Do: Intentionality in a Non-Intentional World

Pierre Jacob

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511583315

Some of a person's mental states have the power to represent real and imagined states of affairs: they have semantic properties. What Minds Can Do has two goals: to find a naturalistic or non-semantic basis for the representational powers of a person's mind, and to show that these semantic properties are involved in the causal explanation of the person's behaviour. In the process, this 1997 book addresses issues that are central to much contemporary philosophical debate. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers in philosophy of mind and of language, cognitive science, and psychology.

‘... the book addresses issues that are central to much contemporary philosophical debate, in both Anglo-Saxon and Continental philosophy. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers in philosophy of mind and language, cognitive science and psychology.’

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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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PART I - THE NATURALIZATION OF INTENTIONALITY
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1 - What is intentional realism?
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2 - Introduction to informational semantics
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3 - Three problems for informational semantics
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4 - Information and teleology
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PART II - THE CAUSAL ROLE OF INTENTIONALITY
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5 - The computational representational theory of mind (CRTM)
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6 - Must an intentional realist be a meaning atomist?
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7 - Functionalism and the threat of preemption
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8 - Explaining intentional behavior
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9 - Conclusion: a postlude on semantics and psychology
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References
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Index
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Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-viii

Contents
pp ix-x

Acknowledgments
pp xi-xii

Introduction
pp 1-6

PART I - THE NATURALIZATION OF INTENTIONALITY
pp 7-8

1 - What is intentional realism?
pp 9-42

2 - Introduction to informational semantics
pp 43-77

3 - Three problems for informational semantics
pp 78-104

4 - Information and teleology
pp 105-138

PART II - THE CAUSAL ROLE OF INTENTIONALITY
pp 139-140

5 - The computational representational theory of mind (CRTM)
pp 141-173

6 - Must an intentional realist be a meaning atomist?
pp 174-204

7 - Functionalism and the threat of preemption
pp 205-233

8 - Explaining intentional behavior
pp 234-269

9 - Conclusion: a postlude on semantics and psychology
pp 270-280

References
pp 281-294

Index
pp 295-299

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