基本説明
Jerry Fodor and Ernie Lepore have produced a series of original and controversial essays on issue relating to compositionality in language and mind; they have now revised them all for publication together in this volume.
Full Description
This is a selection of essays on issues relating to compositionality in language and mind. Compositionality is the following aspect of a system of representation - the complex symbols in the system inherit their syntactic and semantic properties from the primitive symbols of the system.;The authors argue that compositionality determines what view we must take of the nature of concepts.
Contents
Introduction; 1. WHY MEANING PROBABLY ISN'T CONCEPTUAL ROLE (1991); 2. The Pet Fish and the Red Herring: Why Concepts aren't Prototypes (1996); 3. Why Compositionality Won't Go Away: Reflections on Horwich's 'Deflationary Theory' (2001); 4. What Can't be Valued, Can't be Valued, and it Can't be Supervalued Either (1996); 5. THE EMPTINESS OF THE LEXICON (1998); 6. Impossible Word Arguments (1999); 7. BRANDOM'S BURDENS: CRITICAL STUDY OF BRANDOM'S ARTICULATING REASONS; 8. Churchland on State Space Semantics (1996); 9. All at Sea in Semantic Space: Churchland on Meaning Similarity (1999)
