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
 expand sectionChapter Seven—  Semiotic-Semantic Properties, Intentionality, Vindication
 collapse sectionChapter Eight—  Causal and Stipulative Definitions of Semantic Terms
 8.1—  The Vocabulary of Computation in CTM
 8.2—  A Bowdlerized Version of CTM
 8.3—  The Problem of Semantics
 collapse section8.4—  A Stipulative Reconstruction of the Semantic Vocabulary
 8.4.1—  What Is Gained and Lost in Causal Definition
 expand section8.4.2—  Covariation and Mental-Semantics
 expand section8.4.3—  CCTI As a Demarcation Criterion for Meaning Assignments
 expand section8.4.4—  What CCTI Does Not Do
 8.4.5—  Some Telling Comparisons
 8.4.6—  The Tension between Generality and Explanatory Force
 8.4.7—  Compositionality Revisited
 expand section8.5—  A Second Strategy: Theoretical Definition
 expand section8.6—  Mr-Semantics and the Vindication of Intentional Psychology
 8.7—  Summary
 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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