
The Compositionality Papers
Published on 11. July 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
220 pages
978-0-19-925216-9 (ISBN)
Description
Jerry Fodor and Ernie Lepore have produced a series of original and controversial essays on issues relating to compositionality in language and mind; they have now revised them all for publication together in this volume. 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. Fodor and Lepore argue that compositionality determines what view we must take of the nature of concepts. Anyone trying to figure out how language and mind work must take account of this challenging work by two leading figures in the field.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
269 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-925216-9 (9780199252169)
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Persons
Jerry A. Fodor is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Jersey.
Ernie Lepore is Director of Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science.
Ernie Lepore is Director of Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science.
Content
1. WHY MEANING PROBABLY ISN'T CONCEPTUAL ROLE (1991) ; 5. THE EMPTINESS OF THE LEXICON (1998) ; 7. BRANDOM'S BURDENS: CRITICAL STUDY OF BRANDOM'S ARTICULATING REASONS