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On Minds and Symbols : The Relevance of Cognitive Science for Semiotics

The Relevance of Cognitive Science for Semiotics

By: Thomas C. Daddesio

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Hardcover | 1 December 1993

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Contends that although traditional mentalism has proven incompatible with the theory of signs, there is a place for mental entities in semiotic inquiry. Charts some provisional pathways in a cognitive approach to semiotics by exploring the ability to communicate by means of symbols, including the fu

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Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
Semiotics and cognition	p. 17
Critique of pure semiotics	p. 17
Just how pure is pure semiotics?	p. 25
Morris and Peirce on mentalism	p. 27
Mentalism reconsidered	p. 35
John Deely on signs and ideas	p. 40
Cognition in the wake of the linguistic turn	p. 45
The linguistic turn	p. 47
Antimentalism and formalism within the analytic tradition	p. 50
Reasons for the cognitive shift	p. 52
Problems with cognitivism: the language of thought and the formalist stance	p. 55
The second phase of cognitivism	p. 57
Connectionism and the multiplicity of mind	p. 69
Beyond traditional mentalism	p. 79
General Principles of Cognitivism	p. 80
Cognitivism and objections to traditional mentalism	p. 84
The language of thought and computational theories of mind	p. 92
Prelude to a cognitive theory of symbols	p. 103
Truth conditions, conventions, and cultural units	p. 104
On symbols and indices	p. 109
Symbols reconsidered	p. 113
Steps towards a theory of representations	p. 125
Criteria for evaluating cognitive theories	p. 126
Preliminaries for a theory of representations	p. 134
Dretske's model of elementary behavior	p. 141
Functional autonomy and the arbitrariness of symbols	p. 145
Perception and understanding	p. 146
Functional autonomy	p. 149
Functional autonomy and the relation of signification	p. 162
Functional autonomy and cross-modal transfers	p. 165
Functional autonomy and imagination	p. 170
Functional autonomy and the evolution of symbolic communication	p. 172
The development of symbolic communication in children	p. 179
Piaget's sensorimotor period and the child's first words	p. 181
Intentions in young children	p. 185
The child's conceptual system	p. 186
Pure performatives and functional autonomy	p. 192
Cognition and social development	p. 200
Afterword	p. 211
Notes	p. 217
References	p. 243
Index of Names	p. 257
Subject Index	p. 261
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