Psychosemantics
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Psychosemantics is a philosophical work by Jerry Fodor that develops and defends a causal, computational theory of mental representation and meaning.
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| Psychosemantics canonical | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Psychosemantics Context triple: [Jerry Fodor, notableWork, Psychosemantics]
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Philosophy of the Unconscious
Philosophy of the Unconscious is a 19th-century philosophical work by Eduard von Hartmann that synthesizes ideas from German idealism, Schopenhauer, and early psychology to argue that an unconscious metaphysical principle underlies all reality and human behavior.
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The Psychoanalytic Mind: From Freud to Philosophy
The Psychoanalytic Mind: From Freud to Philosophy is a scholarly work by Marcia Cavell that explores and critically reassesses Freudian psychoanalysis through the lens of contemporary philosophy of mind and language.
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The Concept of Mind
The Concept of Mind is a 1949 philosophical work by Gilbert Ryle that critiques Cartesian dualism and introduces the idea of mental concepts as dispositions rather than inner ghostly states.
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Language and Mind
Language and Mind is a collection of influential essays by Noam Chomsky that explores the nature of language, human cognition, and their implications for philosophy and psychology.
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Mind, Language and Reality
Mind, Language and Reality is a landmark collection of Hilary Putnam’s philosophical essays that helped shape contemporary debates in philosophy of mind, language, and metaphysics.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Psychosemantics Target entity description: Psychosemantics is a philosophical work by Jerry Fodor that develops and defends a causal, computational theory of mental representation and meaning.
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A.
Philosophy of the Unconscious
Philosophy of the Unconscious is a 19th-century philosophical work by Eduard von Hartmann that synthesizes ideas from German idealism, Schopenhauer, and early psychology to argue that an unconscious metaphysical principle underlies all reality and human behavior.
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B.
The Psychoanalytic Mind: From Freud to Philosophy
The Psychoanalytic Mind: From Freud to Philosophy is a scholarly work by Marcia Cavell that explores and critically reassesses Freudian psychoanalysis through the lens of contemporary philosophy of mind and language.
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C.
The Concept of Mind
The Concept of Mind is a 1949 philosophical work by Gilbert Ryle that critiques Cartesian dualism and introduces the idea of mental concepts as dispositions rather than inner ghostly states.
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D.
Language and Mind
Language and Mind is a collection of influential essays by Noam Chomsky that explores the nature of language, human cognition, and their implications for philosophy and psychology.
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E.
Mind, Language and Reality
Mind, Language and Reality is a landmark collection of Hilary Putnam’s philosophical essays that helped shape contemporary debates in philosophy of mind, language, and metaphysics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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philosophical work ⓘ |
| addressesProblem |
indeterminacy of content
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problem of misrepresentation ⓘ relation between syntax and semantics in cognition ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
explain how mental states can have determinate content
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naturalize intentionality in physicalistic terms ⓘ |
| author |
Jerry A. Fodor
NERFINISHED
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Jerry Fodor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| criticizes |
behaviorism
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conceptual role semantics ⓘ instrumentalism about mental states ⓘ traditional descriptivist theories of meaning ⓘ verificationism ⓘ |
| defendsPosition |
naturalistic semantics
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representational theory of mind ⓘ semantic externalism ⓘ |
| field |
cognitive science
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philosophy ⓘ |
| genre | analytic philosophy ⓘ |
| hasKeyConcept |
asymmetric dependence
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computational architecture of the mind ⓘ informational semantics ⓘ methodological solipsism ⓘ narrow content vs. wide content ⓘ |
| hasPerspective |
physicalist approach to the mind
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realist view of mental content ⓘ |
| influenced |
contemporary debates on mental content
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naturalistic theories of representation ⓘ philosophy of cognitive science ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Jerry Fodor's earlier work on the language of thought
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causal theories of reference ⓘ computational models of cognition ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
causal theory of content
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computational theory of mind ⓘ content externalism NERFINISHED ⓘ intentionality ⓘ meaning ⓘ mental representation ⓘ naturalization of content ⓘ philosophy of language ⓘ philosophy of mind ⓘ |
| notableFor | systematic defense of a causal, computational theory of mental representation and meaning ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition | analytic philosophy of mind ⓘ |
| proposesTheory |
causal, informational theory of mental content
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computational-representational theory of mind ⓘ |
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