Ruth G.

Millikan
Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy, U-1054
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1054
Office: 202 Manchester Hall
Phone: (860) 486-4592
ruth.millikan@uconn.edu

Research Interests:

Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Language,

Philosophy of Biology, Ontology, and Natural Epistemology

My research interests span many topics in the philosophy of biology,

philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and ontology. The unity is in
method rather than subject matter. The aspects of these fields that interest
me are continuous with relevant scientific work and with the philosophy of
science. I have been especially interested in applications of evolutionary
theory in these areas, and in the ontology that makes study of biological
entities possible.

For a complete listing of articles and books, please see my curriculum

vitae.pdf.

Online Books:
2005 Language: A Biological Model , Oxford
2004 Varieties of Meaning, The Jean Nicod Lectures 2002, MIT
2000 On Clear and Confused Ideas, Cambridge
Online
Papers:
Places of publication are in my curriculum vitae above. To view the following
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Forthcoming Thoughts of Real Kinds.pdf
2013 An Epistemology for Phenomenology.pdf
2012 What’s Inside a Thinking Animal?.pdf
2012 Spracherwerb Learning Language.pdf
2012 On Meaning, Meaning and Meaning.pdf
2012 Are There Mental Indexicals and Demonstratives?.pdf
2012 Accidents.pdf (APA John Dewey Lecture)
2011 Loosing the Word-Concept Tie.pdf
2010 On Knowing the Meaning; With a Coda on Swampman.pdf
2009 Embedded Rationality.pdf
A Difference of Some Consequence Between Conventions And
2008
Rules.pdf
Biosemantics.pdf (for the Oxford Handbook in the Philosophy of
2008
Mind, Brian McLaughlin, Editor)
2007 An Input Condition for Teleosemantics.pdf
2006 Useless Content.pdf
2006 Styles of Rationality.pdf
The Father, The Son and the Daughter: Sellars, Brandom and
2005
Millikan.pdf
2005 Some Reflections on the TT – ST Debate.pdf
2004 Existence Proof for a Viable Externalism.pdf
On Reading Signs: Some Differences Between Us and The
2004
Others.pdf
2003 In Defense of Public Language.pdf
2003 Teleological Theories of Mental Content.pdf
2002 Biofunctions: Two Paradigms .pdf
2001 The Language-Thought Partnership A Bird’s Eye View.pdf
2001 The Myth of Mental Indexicals.pdf
What Has Natural Information to Do with Intentional
2001
Representation?.pdf
2001 Cutting Philosophy of Language Down to Size.pdf
Purposes and cross-purposes: On the Evolution of Languages
2001
and Language.pdf
2000 Reading Mother Nature’s Mind.pdf
Wings, Spoons, Pills, and Quills: A Pluralist Theory of
1999
Function.pdf
1999 Historical Kinds and the Special Sciences.pdf
1999 Reply to Boyd on Historical Kinds and the Special Sciences.pdf
A Common Structure for Concepts of Individuals, Stuffs and
1998
Real Kinds.pdf
With Enemies Like These, I Don’t Need Friends: Words,
1998
Concepts, and Entities.pdf
1998 Language Conventions Made Simple.pdf
How We Make Our Ideas Clear: Empiricist Epistemology for
1998
Empirical Concepts.pdf
1998 Naturalizing Intentionality.pdf (World Congress XX)
1998 A More Plausible Kind of Recognitional Concept.pdf
1998 On Cognitive Luck: Externalism in an Evolutionary Frame.pdf
1996 On Swampkinds.pdf
Pushmi-Pullyu Representations.pdf

1996

White Queen Psychology, Chapter 7: What Is Behavior? A

1993 Philosophical Essay on Ethology and Individualism in
Psychology Part One.pdf
White Queen Psychology, Chapter 8: The Green Grass Growing
1993 All Around A Philosophical Essay on Ethology and Individualism
in Psychology, Part Two.pdf