Language, Logic, and Concepts

by Ray Jackendoff, Paul Bloom and Karen Wynn (Eds.)

• ISBN13: 9780262100786
• ISBN10: 0262100789
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-18
• Publisher: Bradford Books

Summary

This wide-ranging collection of essays is inspired by the memory of the cognitive psychologist John Macnamara, whose influential contributions to language and concept acquisition have provided the basis for numerous research programs. The areas covered by the essays include the foundations of language and thought, congnitive and linguistic development, and mathematical approaches to cognition.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Introduction
Publications of John Macnamara
Language and Nationalism	p. 1
Meaning and Misconceptions	p. 15
On Structuralism in Mathematics	p. 43
The Natural Logic of Rights and Obligations	p. 67
Deliberation Reasons and Explanation Reasons	p. 97
Truth and Its Negation: Macnamara's Analysis of the Place of Logic in a Cognitive Psychology	p. 109
Names of Things and Stuff: An Aristotelian Perspective	p. 119
The Unity of Science and the Distinction among Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics	p. 147
Scientific Theories That Unconceal Being: Intentions and Conceptions in Their Genesis	p. 161
The Nature of Human Concepts: Evidence from an Unusual Source	p. 221
Some Evidence for Impaired Grammars	p. 263
The Role of Semantics in Solving the Bootstrapping Problem	p. 285
Sortals and Kinds: An Appreciation of John Macnamara	p. 311
Semantics and the Acquisition of Proper Names	p. 337
The Learning of First and Second Person Pronouns in English	p. 373
Kinship and Mathematical Categories	p. 411
Count Nouns, Mass Nouns, and Their Transformations: A Unified Category-Theoretic Semantics	p. 427
Index	p. 453
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