The Compositionality Papers,9780199252169

The Compositionality Papers

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ISBN13: 9780199252169
ISBN10: 0199252165
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-10-24
Publisher(s): Clarendon Press
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Summary

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 takeaccount of this challenging work by two leading figures in the field.

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

Geographical Introduction 1(9)
Part I. Composition
Why Meaning (Probably) Isn't Conceptual Role
9(18)
The Pet Fish and the Red Herring: Why Concepts Still Can't Be Prototypes
27(16)
Why Compositionality Won't Go Away: Reflections on Horwich's `Deflationary' Theory
43(20)
What Can't Be Valued Can't Be Valued, and it Can't Be Supervalued Either
63(26)
Part II. Decomposition
The Emptiness of the Lexicon: Reflections on Pustejovsky
89(31)
Impossible Words?
120(15)
Part III. New Pragmatists
Brandom's Burdens: Compositionality and Inferentialism
135(20)
Paul Churchland and State Space Semantics
155(19)
All at Sea in Semantic Space: Churchland on Meaning Similarity
174(27)
Reference 201(6)
Name Index 207(2)
Subject Index 209

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