Nicholas Shea
List of John Benjamins publications for which Nicholas Shea plays a role.
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2023 Millikan’s consistency testers and the cultural evolution of concepts What can metacognition teach us about the evolution of communication?, Proust, Joëlle (ed.), pp. 79–101 | Article
Ruth Millikan has hypothesised that human cognition contains ‘consistency testers’. Consistency testers check whether different judgements a thinker makes about the same subject matter agree or conflict. Millikan’s suggestion is that, where the same concept has been applied to the world via two… read more