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9780199252152

The Compositionality Papers

by Fodor, Jerry A.; Lepore, Ernie
  • ISBN13:

    9780199252152

  • ISBN10:

    0199252157

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-10-24
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

This title includes the following features: controversial ideas about how mind and language work; the authors are two of the best-known figures in the field; all papers revised and updated, including a specially written introduction; the collection makes connections across seemingly disparatetopics; brings together fields of linguistics, psychology, and philosophy

Author Biography


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

Table of Contents

Introduction
Composition
Why Meaning Probably isn't Conceptual Role (1991)
The Pet Fish and the Red Herring: Why Concepts aren't Prototypes (1996)
Why Compositionality Won't Go Away: Reflections on Horwich's 'Deflationary Theory' (2001)
What Can't be Valued, Can't be Valued, and it Can't be Supervalued Either (1996)
Decomposition
The Emptiness of the Lexicon (1998)
Impossible Word Arguments (1999)
New Pragmatists
Brandom's Burderns: Critical Study of Brandom's Articulating Reasons
Churchland on State Space Semantics (1996)
All at Sea in Semantic Space: Churchland on Meaning Similarity (1999)
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