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Ruth Millikan

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'''Ruth Garrett Millikan''' (1933 - ) is a well-known United States American philosopher of philosophy of biology biology, philosophy of psychology psychology, and philosophy of language language. She was awarded the Jean Nicod Prize and gave the ''Jean Nicod Lectures'' in Paris in 2002. Millikan earned her PhD from Yale University where she studied under Wilfred Sellars. She, along with Paul Churchland are often considered leading proponants of "right wing" (i.e., individualistic) Sellarsianism. Millikan's most destinctive position, "Teleosemantics", seeks to account for semantic meaning through evolutionary explinations. Millikan taught at the University of Michigan and for several years at the University of Connecticut, where she is now professor emeritus.

Further reading
Millikan has published five books, * (1984) Language, Thought and Other Biological Categories * (2000) On Clear and Confused Ideas [http://vm.uconn.edu/~wwwphil/clearct.htm pdf] * (2004) The Varieties of Meaning: The 2002 Jean Nicod Lectures [http://vm.uconn.edu/~wwwphil/contents.htm pdf] two collections of papers * (1993) White Queen Psychology and Other Essays for Alice * (2005) Language: A Biological Model [http://vm.uconn.edu/~wwwphil/langct.htm pdf] and many articles, many of which are listed [http://vm.uconn.edu/~wwwphil/vrgm.pdf here] and available (in draft form) [http://vm.uconn.edu/~wwwphil/millikan.htm here].

See also
* Jean Nicod Prize List of Jean Nicod Prize laureates

External links

- Ruth Millikan's homepage at the University of Connecticut Category:1933 births Millikan, Ruth Category:Living people Millikan, Ruth Category:20th century philosophers Millikan, Ruth Category:21st century philosophers Millikan, Ruth Category:American philosophers Millikan, Ruth Category:Philosophers of language Millikan, Ruth Category:Philosophers of mind Millikan, Ruth de:Ruth Millikan {{philosopher-stub}}