..., including the consequences of the crash and the rise of the Nazi regime in Germany. By 1939, the hopes of the advocates of German reintegration, IUPAP’s long-serving Secretary General Henri Abraham and Robert Millikan in particular, had been only partially realized, and the war left IUPAP facing nothing...

... and was admitted as student of physics. The domineering figure there was Millikan. Besides leading Caltech as a whole he was also Chairman of the Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy. He chose the subject of Anderson’s Ph.D. thesis, the spatial distribution of electrons produced by X rays...

...The positions of Brandom and Millikan are compared with respect to their common origins in the works of Wilfrid Sellars and Wittgenstein. Millikan takes more seriously the “picturing” themes from Sellars and Wittgenstein. Brandom follows Sellars more closely in deriving the normativity of language...

... of John Pollock, Ruth Millikan, and John Bigelow and Robert Pargetter, but find in each case that the proposed account is inadequate. I then consider the possibility that the notion of proper function (and related notions) should be thought of as useful fictions. After some critical comments about...

... but searing pain and a uniformly blue visual field; but even if this trait became reproductively established over time, it would not follow that displaying the trait was a sign of proper function (Plantinga 1993 : 204). True enough; and Koons's definition, unlike Millikan's and Neander's, is able...

...We ought to improve our abilities. But what exactly is an ability, such that it can be improved? Two extant accounts of abilities are considered, one from the virtue epistemology of John Greco, the other from the philosophy of mind and language of Ruth Millikan. It is the view of the author...

.... It is then argued, drawing on work by Karen Neander and Ruth Millikan, that something similar to what intentional making does in the case of artifacts is accomplished by evolution in the case of organisms. Cases like that of Davidson’s Swampman are not cases of organisms, or hylomorphically complex entities of any...

...), and Millikan (from ionization). While Perrin’s values differed from these others, they all collectively yielded values for the molecular constants within a theretofore unachievable window of ±5 percent. This chapter assesses first the evidence for Perrin’s values from his appeals to each of these “agreeing...

... College and continued at Caltech under Robert Millikan and William Pickering. Aden met Marjorie in classes at Pasadena Junior College. He later served as an apprentice in the Optical Shop at Mt. Wilson under the guidance of Roger Hayward, working on Schmidt cameras, and then in the rocket project...

... Millikan’s: we and she agree that Fregean data are to be explained by appeal to sameness and difference in vehicles of content, rather than sameness and difference in content. ³¹ However, there are many differences. For example, Millikan defines concepts so that they are never shared: a concept...

... to the Nobel laureate Robert Millikan, whom he had met at IISc in 1940, Bhabha had articulated his keenness to visit America and work at Millikan’s school at the California Institute of Technology: There is no place I should like to visit with more eagerness than the United States, and I sincerely hope...

... Fernández Paula externalism intentionalism memory Bechtel William Craver Carl Godfrey Smith Peter Richardson Robert Schacter Daniel Addis Donna Rose Chalmers David Clark Andy Csibra Gergely Gaukroger Cressida Mahr Johannes Garson Justin Neander Karen Wimsatt William Grice Paul Millikan...

... of William Henry Bragg (1922–31), Robert Millikan’s election to the General Assembly (GA) in 1931 promised to introduce some momentum to the union. But the Great Depression shattered all plans, especially the proposed next GA and major international conference in physics due to take place in Chicago in 1933...

...When the civil rights campaign moved north, advocates of integration faced white flight and attendant re-segregation. In Boston, white violence prevented integration of the high schools. In cases like Detroit's Millikan v. Bradley, the limits of the busing remedy pioneered in Charlotte became...

...This chapter discusses externalist theories of mental content that do not involve the mediation of thought by language but in which history is crucial. It argues that the etiological teleosemantics of Millikan, Dretske, and Papineau is false, and that other etiological accounts proposed by Prinz...

... engineers. Brigandt Ingo concepts Haslanger Sally ameliorative project Saul Jennifer Millikan Ruth Horwich Paul conceptual engineering concepts functions Haslanger Brigandt Thomasson Millikan topic presentation I turn now to a discussion of another strand in much of the literature...

... Mill John Stuart demonstratives indexicals Perry John Millikan Ruth languages Kripke Saul empty names Meinong Alexius co referential expressions Frege Gottlob conative constructions Levin Beth lexical semantics Gottlob Frege meaning Ruth Millikan names reference referential theory...

... Frederick Eibl Eibesfeldt Irenäus Jefferson Thomas Machiavelli Niccolò Nietzsche Friedrich naturalism moral realism eudaimonism virtue ethics evolutionary theory Philippa Foot biological function individual fitness Ruth Millikan Tyler Burge We are moral apes … — Kim Sterelny...

...Organisms not only belong to ecological niches in the physical sense, but also to semiotic niches whose cues are visual, acoustic, chemical, and which must be correctly interpreted for the individual organism to survive. Biosemantics (Ruth Millikan) agrees with Bateson...

... as a short introduction to the author’s work on language and thought for some, and as a clarification of the larger plan for others. 105 References Millikan, R. G. ( 1984 ), Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press). —— ( 1993...