Compositionality Papers
Author:   A. Fodor ,  Ernest LePore ,  Ernie Lepore (both at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199252152


Pages:   220
Publication Date:   01 July 2002
Format:   Hardback
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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.

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Author:   A. Fodor ,  Ernest LePore ,  Ernie Lepore (both at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Clarendon Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.372kg
ISBN:  

9780199252152


ISBN 10:   0199252157
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   01 July 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of 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)

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Jerry A. Fodor is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Ernie Lepore is Director of Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science.

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