Introduction
I The Theory of Proper Functions with Some Applications Prior to Introducing Intentionality
1 Direct Proper Functions
2 Adapted Devices and Adapted and Derived Proper Functions
3 Indicatives, Imperatives, and Gricean Intentions
4 Language Device Types; Dictionary Senses; Stabilizing Proper Function as the First Aspect of Meaning
II A General Theory of Signs
5 Intentionality as a Natural Phenomenon
6 Intentional Icons: Fregean Sense, Reference, and Real Value Introduced
7 Kinds of Signs
8 Hubots, Rumans, and Others: Case Studies of Intensions, Senses, and "Stimulus Meanings"
9 Intension: The Third Aspect of Meaning
III A Short Lexicon for Philosophers
10 Simple Indexicals
11 Descriptions
12 "Is" and "Exists": Represented Referents and Protoreferents
13 Quotation Marks, "Says That" and "Believes That"
14 "Not" and "All": Two More Kinds of Indefinite Description
IV Theory of Identity
15 The Act of Identifying
16 Notes on the Identity of Substances and Properties
17 Notes on the Identity of Enduring Objects
18 Epistemology of Identity: The Law of Noncontradiction
19 Epistemology of Identity: Concepts, Law, and Intrusive Information
Ruth Garrett Millikan is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories (MIT Press, 1984) and White Queen Psychology and Other Essays for Alice (MIT Press, 1995) and On Clear and Confused Ideas.
