On mind, mediation and meaning-making

Meaning Making and the Mind of the Externalist

This paper attempts to do two things. First, it recounts the problem of intentionality, as it has typically been conceptualized, and argues that it needs to be reconceptualized in light of the radical form of externalism most commonly referred to as the extended mind thesis. Second, it provides an explicit, novel argument for that thesis, what I call the argument from meaning making, and offers...

Of Mind and Meaning

Mind , Meaning , and the Brain

PROGRESS IN BRAIN RESEARCH over the past two decades demonstrates the power of the neurobiological paradigm. However, this progress is connected with a restricted field of vision typical of any scientific paradigm. The psychiatrist should be aware of this restriction, because, unlike the brain scientist, he deals with patients, not with brains. The restricted view may be described by the terms ...

on the comparison of keyword and semantic-context methods of learning new vocabulary meaning

the rationale behind the present study is that particular learning strategies produce more effective results when applied together. the present study tried to investigate the efficiency of the semantic-context strategy alone with a technique called, keyword method. to clarify the point, the current study seeked to find answer to the following question: are the keyword and semantic-context metho...

Meaning, Communication and Theory of Mind

The study of language, meaning and communication in the cognitive sciences has undergone a kind of conceptual inflation in the past twenty years or so. Not only has the very nature of human communication come to be seen as, in many respects, Gricean, but also linguistic meaning itself has come to be widely regarded in terms of the effect of language use on mental states. As a result, a more or ...