On Minds and Symbols: The Relevance of Cognitive Science for Semiotics, Vol. 117 Book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	Semiotics and cognition	17
	Critique of pure semiotics	17
	Just how pure is pure semiotics?	25
	Morris and Peirce on mentalism	27
	Mentalism reconsidered	35
	John Deely on signs and ideas	40
2	Cognition in the wake of the linguistic turn	45
	The linguistic turn	47
	Antimentalism and formalism within the analytic tradition	50
	Reasons for the cognitive shift	52
	Problems with cognitivism: the language of thought and the formalist stance	55
	The second phase of cognitivism	57
	Connectionism and the multiplicity of mind	69
3	Beyond traditional mentalism	79
	General Principles of Cognitivism	80
	Cognitivism and objections to traditional mentalism	84
	The language of thought and computational theories of mind	92
4	Prelude to a cognitive theory of symbols	103
	Truth conditions, conventions, and cultural units	104
	On symbols and indices	109
	Symbols reconsidered	113
5	Steps towards a theory of representations	125
	Criteria for evaluating cognitive theories	126
	Preliminaries for a theory of representations	134
	Dretske's model of elementary behavior	141
6	Functional autonomy and the arbitrariness of symbols	145
	Perception and understanding	146
	Functional autonomy	149
	Functional autonomy and the relation of signification	162
	Functional autonomy and cross-modal transfers	165
	Functional autonomy and imagination	170
	Functional autonomy and the evolution of symbolic communication	172
7	The development of symbolic communication in children	179
	Piaget's sensorimotor period and the child's first words	181
	Intentions in young children	185
	The child's conceptual system	186
	Pure performatives and functional autonomy	192
	Cognition and social development	200
	Afterword	211
	Notes	217
	References	243
	Index of Names	257
	Subject Index	261