Rita D. Nolan
Professor
Rita D. Nolan, Professor

Education

Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania

Phone: (631) 632-7570
E-mail: rita.nolan@stonybrook.edu

Areas of Specialization

Philosophical foundations of cognitive science,philosophy of language, theories of knowledge, philosophical psychology, Wittgenstein

Selected Publications

Cognitive Practices (Blackwell)
Foundations for an Adequate Criterion of Paraphrase (Mouton & Co.)
"The New Enlightenment Hypothesis: all learners are rational," in Behavioral and Brain Sciences
'An Ideational Account of Early Word Learning: A Plausibility Assessment', in Behavioral and Brain Sciences
'Distinguishing Perceptual from Conceptual Categories', in Philosophy and the Cognitive Sciences, eds. R. Casati, B. Smith, G. White (Verlag, Holder-Pichler-Temsky)
'The Unnaturalness of Grue', in Language, Art, and Mind, ed. Dale Jamieson (Kluwer)

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