@book {2149,
	title = {On minds and symbols : the relevance of cognitive science for semiotics},
	year = {1995},
	note = {1951by Thomas C. Daddesio24 cm},
	pages = {viii, 263 p},
	publisher = {Mouton de Gruyter},
	organization = {Mouton de Gruyter},
	address = {Berlin ; New York},
	abstract = {1. Semiotics and cognition. Critique of pure semiotics. Just how pure is pure semiotics? Morris and Peirce on mentalism. Mentalism reconsidered. John Deely on signs and ideas -- 2. Cognition in the wake of the linguistic turn. The linguistic turn. Antimentalism and formalism within the analytic tradition. Reasons for the cognitive shift. Problems with cognitivism: the language of thought and the formalist stance. The second phase of cognitivism. Connectionism and the multiplicity of mind -- 3. Beyond traditional mentalism. General Principles of Cognitivism. Cognitivism and objections to traditional mentalism. The language of thought and computational theories of mind -- 4. Prelude to a cognitive theory of symbols. Truth conditions, conventions, and cultural units. On symbols and indices. Symbols reconsidered -- 5. Steps towards a theory of representations. Criteria for evaluating cognitive theories. Preliminaries for a theory of representations. Dretske{\textquoteright}s model of elementary behavior6. Functional autonomy and the arbitrariness of symbols. Perception and understanding. Functional autonomy. Functional autonomy and the relation of signification. Functional autonomy and cross-modal transfers. Functional autonomy and imagination. Functional autonomy and the evolution of symbolic communication -- 7. The development of symbolic communication in children. Piaget{\textquoteright}s sensorimotor period and the child{\textquoteright}s first words. Intentions in young children. The child{\textquoteright}s conceptual system. Pure performatives and functional autonomy. Cognition and social development},
	keywords = {Cognition, Cognitive neuroscience, Linguistics, Protolanguage, Semiotics, Symbolic communication},
	isbn = {3110138662},
	author = {Daddesio, Thomas C}
}
