Ruth Millikan

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Ruth Millikan is affiliated with the following schools: Yale University, University of Michigan, University of Connecticut

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Ruth Millikan

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#620

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#121

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#266

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#549

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According to Wikipedia, Ruth Garrett Millikan is a leading American philosopher of biology, psychology, and language. Millikan has spent most of her career at the University of Connecticut, where she is now Professor Emerita of Philosophy.

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Ruth Millikan's Published Works

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In Defense of Proper Functions (1989) (781)
White Queen Psychology and Other Essays for Alice (1998) (483)
Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories: New Foundations for Realism (1987) (408)
Pushmi-Pullyu Representations (1995) (324)
Language, thought and other Biological Categories: New Foundations for Realism (1987) (292)
Language - a biological model (2005) (282)
Historical Kinds and the “Special Sciences” (1999) (268)
Varieties of Meaning: The 2002 Jean Nicod Lectures (2004) (263)
On Clear and Confused Ideas (2000) (222)
Thoughts Without Laws; Cognitive Science with Content (1986) (213)
On Clear and Confused Ideas: An Essay about Substance Concepts (2000) (212)
A common structure for concepts of individuals, stuffs, and real kinds: More Mama, more milk, and more mouse (1998) (178)
Truth Rules, Hoverflies, and the Kripke–Wittgenstein Paradox (1990) (96)
Minds, Machines and Evolution (1986) (93)
Language conventions made simple (1998) (75)
The Myth of the Essential Indexical (1990) (75)
Wings, Spoons, Pills, and Quills: A Pluralist Theory of Function (1999) (66)
NATURALIST REFLECTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE (1984) (63)
Compare and Contrast Dreske, Fodor, and Millikan on Teleosemantics (1990) (57)
Styles of rationality (2006) (57)
An ambiguity in the notion “function” (1989) (47)
Perceptual Content and Fregean Myth (1991) (45)
On Knowing the Meaning; With a Coda on Swampman (2010) (39)
A Difference of Some Consequence Between Conventions and Rules (2008) (32)
What Peter thinks when he hears Mary speak (1987) (29)
Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories (1984) (29)
A More Plausible Kind of "Recognitional Concept" (1998) (28)
Images of Identity: in search of modes of presentation (1997) (27)
Beyond Concepts: Unicepts, Language, and Natural Information (2017) (25)
An Input Condition for Teleosemantics? Reply to Shea (and Godfrey‐Smith)1 (2007) (21)
Seismograph Readings for "Explaining Behavior" (1990) (20)
The father, the son, and the daughter: Sellars, Brandom, and Millikan (2005) (18)
What has Natural Information to do with Intentional Representation?1 (2001) (17)
On Reading Signs; Some Differences between Us and the Others on Reading Signs on Reading Signs; Some Differences between Us and the Others (2003) (17)
ON UNCLEAR AND INDISTINCT IDEAS (1994) (16)
Animal Communication Theory: Natural information, intentional signs and animal communication (2013) (16)
The language-thought partnership (2001) (14)
In Defense of Public Language (2015) (13)
Proper function and convention in speech acts (1998) (13)
Deflating Socially Constructed Objects: What Thoughts Do to the World (2014) (11)
ARE THERE MENTAL INDEXICALS AND DEMONSTRATIVES (2012) (11)
Neuroscience and teleosemantics (2020) (11)
On Meaning, Meaning, and Meaning* (2005) (10)
On Clear and Confused Ideas: What Has Natural Information to Do with Intentional Representation? (2000) (9)
Knowing What I'm Thinking Of (1993) (8)
Cutting Philosophy of Language Down to Size (2001) (8)
Existence Proof for a Viable Externalism (2004) (8)
Response to Boyd's Commentary (1999) (7)
Biosemantics and Words that Don't Represent (2018) (6)
Representations, Targets and Attitudes (2000) (6)
The Price of Correspondence Truth (1986) (6)
The Son and the Daughter: On Sellars, Brandom, and Millikan* (2005) (5)
The myth of mental indexicals (2001) (5)
Reply to Bermúdez (2007) (5)
II—Ruth Garrett Millikan: Loosing the Word–Concept Tie (2011) (5)
WHY (MOST) CONCEPTS AREN'T CATEGORIES (2005) (5)
Purposes and Cross-Purposes: On the Evolution of Languages and Language (2001) (4)
A theory of representation to complement TEC (2001) (4)
Words, concepts, and entities: With enemies like these, I don't need friends (1998) (4)
An Epistemology for Phenomenology (2014) (4)
Confessions of a Renegade Daughter (2016) (4)
Natural Signs (2012) (4)
Reply to Recanati (2007) (4)
A Non-modal Conception of Secondary Properties ' (2010) (4)
It is likely misbelief never has a function (2009) (3)
On Clear and Confused Ideas: Preface (2000) (3)
Metaphysical Anti-Realism? (1986) (3)
Daniel C. Dennett (1995) (3)
Why (Most) Kinds are not Classes (2005) (3)
Comment on Artiga’s “Teleosemantics and Pushmi-Pullyu Representations” (2021) (3)
KANTIAN REFLECTIONS ON ANIMAL MINDS (2001) (3)
Semantics/Pragmatics: (Purposes and Cross-Purposes)* (2005) (2)
How We Make Our Ideas Clear: Epistemology for Empirical Concepts (2000) (2)
THOUGHTS WITHOUT LAWS; COGNITIVE (1986) (2)
The Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition: Embedded Rationality (2008) (2)
Précis of Varieties of Meaning (2007) (2)
Die Vielfalt der Bedeutung : Zeichen, Ziele und ihre Verwandtschaft (2008) (2)
Mental Content, Teleological Theories of (2006) (2)
Self‐signs and intensional contexts (2022) (1)
TROUBLES WITH WAGNER'S READING OF MILLIKAN (1997) (1)
On sympathies with J. J. Gibson and on focusing reference (1999) (1)
Introducing Substance Concepts (2000) (1)
Comment on the Relation between Representation and Information (2021) (1)
Replik auf Eider (2010) (0)
On Clear and Confused Ideas: More Mama, More Milk and More Mouse: The Structure and Development of Substance Concepts (2000) (0)
Contrast with Evans on Information-Based Thoughts (2000) (0)
Cognitive Luck: Substance Concepts in an Evolutionary Frame (2000) (0)
Reply to Rosenberg (2007) (0)
Comments on "Millikan's (Un?)Compromised Externalism" (2004) (0)
A Companion to Naturalism (2015) (0)
In Search of Strawsonian Modes of Presentation (2000) (0)
Troubles with Plantinga’s Reading of Millikan (2013) (0)
Book Review:Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature Peter Godfrey-Smith (1998) (0)
How Extensions of New Substance Concepts are Fixed: How Substance Concepts Acquire Intentionality (2000) (0)
The Nature of Abilities: How Is Extension Determined? (2000) (0)
Chapter 7: The etiological theory (2001) (0)
An Evolutionist Approach to Language (1979) (0)
Substance Concepts Through Language: Knowing the Meanings of Words (2000) (0)
On Clear and Confused Ideas: Classifying, Identifying, and the Function of Substance Concepts (2000) (0)
: The Explanatory Gap and the Individuation of Phenomenal Concepts 1 (2004) (0)
Dennett's rational animals: And how behavorism overlooked them (1983) (0)
Of what use categories? (1986) (0)
PHS volume 49 Cover and Front matter (2001) (0)
Substances: The Ontology (2000) (0)
On Clear and Confused Ideas: Grasping Sameness (2000) (0)
PHS volume 48 Cover and Front matter (2001) (0)
Rejecting Identity Judgments and Fregean Modes (2000) (0)
Symposium on Language: A Biological Mode (2006) (0)
Content and Vehicle in Perception (2000) (0)
Ramsey 311,314 Rembrandt 388 Rosenberg, Alexander xxi Ross, WD. 274 (2002) (0)
Neuroscience and teleosemantics (2020) (0)
Reply to Taylor (2007) (0)
Teleosemantics and the frogs (2023) (0)
Embedding Language in the World (2020) (0)
Disputatio 13, November 2002 34 CRITICAL NOTICE GETTING CLEAR ABOUT EQUIVOCAL CONCEPTS (2002) (0)
Sames Versus Sameness in Conceptual Contents and Vehicles (2000) (0)
Die eingebettete Vernunft (2011) (0)
Biosemantik : sprachphilosophische Aufsätze (2012) (0)
Interview. Gedacht wird in der Welt, nicht im Kopf (2010) (0)
Replik auf Elder (2010) (0)
"Gedacht wird in der Welt, nicht im Kopf": Interview mit Ruth Garrett Millikan (2010) (0)
INTERVIEW: Gedacht wird in der Welt, nicht im Kopf (2010) (0)

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