Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: 'A picture held us captive' -- 1.1 TWO PROJECTS AND A PICTURE -- 1.2 PICTURE AS MYTHOLOGY -- 1.3 SUBVERTING MYTHOLOGY -- PART I Psychotectonics -- 2 Introduction to Part I: 'Don't work hard, work smart' -- ENVIRONMENTALISM -- ENVIRONMENTALISM defended by appeal to MANIPULATION THESIS -- 3 Environmentalism and what it is not -- 3.1 INTERNALISM, EXTERNALISM, AND ENVIRONMENTALISM -- 3.2 PHILOSOPHICAL EXTERNALISM -- Putnam's twin earth case -- Burge's counterfactual case -- Indexicals -- 3.3 PHILOSOPHICAL EXTERNALISM AND THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL CLAIM -- 3.4 PHILOSOPHICAL EXTERNALISM AND THE ONTOLOGICAL CLAIM -- 3.5 ENVIRONMENTALISM AND BEHAVIOURISM -- Behaviourism and reductionism -- Behaviourism and inner processes -- Wide and narrow behaviour -- 3.6 MILLIKAN'S THEORY -- 3.7 THE VIEW -- 4 Environmentalism and evolution -- 4.1 THE CONCEPT OF EVOLUTIONARY COST -- 4.2 EVOLUTIONARY COST AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANIPULATION -- 4.3 BARKING DOGS AND THE NOT SO OBVIOUS -- 4.4 THE 'MANIPULATE THE ENVIRONMENT' STRATEGY AT WORK -- 4.5 OBJECTIONS AND REPLIES -- 4.6 BD, NOC, AND COGNITIVE PROCESSES -- 4.7 THE IRRELEVANCE OF EXAPTATION -- 5 Perception -- 5.1 CARTESIAN APPROACHES TO VISUAL PERCEPTION -- 5.2 VISUAL PERCEPTION AND THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL CLAIM -- 5.3 VISUAL PERCEPTION AND THE ONTOLOGICAL CLAIM -- 6 Memory -- 6.1 THE MODEL -- 6.2 VARIETIES OF REMEMBERING -- 6.3 THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEMANTIC MEMORY -- 6.4 EXTERNAL REPRESENTATION AND SEMANTIC MEMORY -- 6.5 EXTERNAL INFORMATION STORES IN ORAL TRADITIONS -- 6.6 AN ANALOGY -- 6.7 THE ENVIRONMENTALIST CONCEPT OF WORKING MEMORY -- 7 Thought -- 7.1 THE SYMBOLIC PARADIGM -- 7.2 PATTERN MAPPING AND PROCEDURAL KNOWLEDGE -- 7.3 PATTERN MAPPING, PROCEDURES, AND THE 'MANIPULATE THE ENVIRONMENT' STRATEGY -- 8 Language.

8.1 FODOR AND PYLYSHYN'S CASE AGAINST CONNECTIONISM -- 8.2 CONNECTIONISM AND THE MANIPULATION OF EXTERNAL LINGUISTIC STRUCTURES -- 8.3 THE INTERNAL COMPONENT: ELMAN'S NET -- Phasing the training -- Phasing the memory -- 8.4 THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMPONENT I: PHASED MEMORY -- 8.5 THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMPONENT II: PHASED TRAINING -- Four phases of language acquisition -- The prelinguistic phase -- The indicational phase -- The transitional phase -- PART II Psychosemantics -- 9 Introduction to Part II: the need for and the place of a theory of representation -- 9.1 THE NEED FOR A THEORY OF REPRESENTATION -- 9.2 THE PLACE OF A THEORY OF REPRESENTATION -- 10 Two theories of representation -- 10.1 INFORMATIONAL THEORIES OF REPRESENTATION -- 10.2 PROBLEMS FOR INFORMATIONAL ACCOUNTS OF REPRESENTATION -- The problem of intensionality -- The problem of misrepresentation -- The problem of indeterminacy -- 10.3 THE TELEOLOGICAL THEORY OF REPRESENTATION -- 10.4 TELEOLOGICAL SEMANTICS AND THE PROBLEM OF MISREPRESENTATION -- 11 Environmentalism and teleological semantics -- 11.1 THE PROBLEM OF INDETERMINACY -- 11.2 THE PROBLEM OF TRANSPARENCY -- 11.3 REPRESENTATION, ACTION, AND THE CONCEPT OF AN AFFORDANCE -- 11.4 ORGANISMIC AND ALGORITHMIC PROPER FUNCTIONS -- 11.5 ORGANISMS, ALGORITHMS, AND THE PROBLEM OF INDETERMINACY -- 11.6 THE PROBLEM OF TRANSPARENCY REVISITED -- 11.7 COMPARISON WITH MILLIKAN -- 11.8 STIMULUS-BASED AND BENEFIT-BASED ACCOUNTS OF REPRESENTATION -- 11.9 CONCLUSION -- References -- Index.

This book offers a radical externalist or environmentalist model of cognitive processes.

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