Mental Symbols : A Defence of the Classical Theory of Mind

__Mental Symbols__ is an essay on mind and meaning, on the biological implementation of mental symbols, on the architecture of mind, and on the correct construal of logical properties and relations of symbols, including implication and inference. The book argues against the main contemporary trends in the cognitive sciences, preferring rather the classical early-modern tradition. The author looks at some logical paradoxes in the light of that tradition, and offers a novel answer to the problem of the biological implementation of the mind in the brain. Front Matter....Pages N3-xxii Conservative Rationalism I....Pages 1-24 The Idea as World and Will....Pages 25-38 Sentence-based Semantics....Pages 39-57 Radical Empiricism I....Pages 59-75 Radical Empiricism II....Pages 77-106 Conservative Rationalism II....Pages 107-123 The Classical Theory of Mind I....Pages 125-165 The Classical Theory of Mind II....Pages 167-193 The Classical Theory of Mind III....Pages 195-223 The Tale of Russell’s Paradox....Pages 225-242 Epilogue....Pages 243-246 Back Matter....Pages 247-267