Symbols, Computation, and Intentionality

  PREFACE

 expand sectionINTRODUCTION

 collapse sectionPART I—  COMPUTATIONALISM AND ITS CRITICS
 expand sectionChapter One—  The Computational Theory of Mind
 expand sectionChapter Two—  Computation, Intentionality, and the Vindication of Intentional Psychology
 expand sectionChapter Three—  "Derived Intentionality"

 collapse sectionPART II—  SYMBOLS, COMPUTERS, AND THOUGHTS
 expand sectionChapter Four—  Symbols—An Analysis
 expand sectionChapter Five—  The Semantics of Thoughts and of Symbols in Computers
 expand sectionChapter Six—  Rejecting Nonconventional Syntax and Semantics for Symbols

 collapse sectionPART III—  THE CRITIQUE OF CTM
 collapse sectionChapter Seven—  Semiotic-Semantic Properties, Intentionality, Vindication
 7.1—  A Brief Discussion of the Three Versions
 7.2—  Semiotic-Semantic Properties and CTM'S Account of Intentionality
 7.3—  Intentions, Conventions, and the Representational Account
 7.4—  The Empirical Implausibility of the Account
 7.5—  The Irrelevance of Conventions and Intentions
 7.6—  Conflicts in the Notion of Representation
 7.7—  Circularity and Regress
 expand section7.8—  The Interpretability-in-principle Version
 7.9—  Applicability of These Criticisms
 7.10—  Two Possible Responses
 7.11—  Systematic Symbol Manipulation
 expand section7.12—  Causality and Computers
 7.13—  Compositionality and the Conventionality of Syntax
 7.14—  Semiotic-Semantics and the Vindication of Intentional Psychology
 7.15—  Summary
 expand sectionChapter Eight—  Causal and Stipulative Definitions of Semantic Terms
 expand sectionChapter Nine—  Prospects for a Naturalistic Theory of Content

 collapse sectionPART IV—  AN ALTERNATIVE VISION
 expand sectionChapter Ten—  An Alternative Approach to Computational Psychology
 expand sectionChapter Eleven—  Intentionality Without Vindication, Psychology Without Naturalization

 expand sectionAPPENDIX
 expand sectionNotes
  BIBLIOGRAPHY
 expand sectionINDEX

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